Bright shining : how grace changes everything / Julia Baird.
"Grace is hard to define. It can be found when we create ways to find meaning and dignity in connection with each other, building on our shared humanity, being kinder, bigger, better with each other. If, in its crudest interpretation, karma is getting what you deserve, then grace is the opposite: forgiving the unforgivable, favoring the undeserving, loving the unlovable. Sadly, we live in an era when grace is increasingly rare. Our growing distrust of the media, politicians, and each other has choked our ability to trust, to accept, to allow for mistakes, to forgive. What does grace look like in today's world, and how do we recognize it, nurture it in ourselves and express it, even in the darkest of times? In this luminously beautiful, deeply insightful, and timely book, Baird explores the meaning of grace and how we can cut through negativity to find it today."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 006341435X
- ISBN: 9780063414358
- Physical Description: xii, 306 pages : portraits (some color) ; 22 cm
- Edition: First HarperOne edition.
- Publisher: New York : HarperOne, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published in Australia in 2023 by HarperCollingPublishers, Australia Pty Limited.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction: when the shadows fall behind you -- Part I. Our souls, our selves -- 'Really into waterfalls': on a state of daily grace -- 1. 21.3 grams -- 2. Anonymous Samaritans -- Part II. Our circles -- Our beating hearts -- 3. Grace inherited -- 4. Icarus flew -- 5. 'Inhale the world': an ode to the fire of teenage girls -- 6. On being decent men -- Part III. Our strangers -- Random encounters -- 7. Other people's lives -- 8. The comfort of strangers -- 9. The discomfort of estrangers -- 10. Restlaufzeit: in the time we have left, we must dance -- Part IV. Our sins -- Forgive us our sins -- 11. Napoleon's penis: what we choose to remember -- 12. When you can't forgive -- 13. The Stolen Generations: what does forgiveness mean? -- 14. 'We will wear you down with our love' -- 15. The callus: on restorative justice -- 16. 'A broken place': people who have forgiven -- Part V. Our senses -- Flukeprint -- 17. Fever dreams -- 18. A grace note.
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