Bringing God Home

By Forrest Church

Book Overview

In times of crisis, we seek the consolation faith alone can provide. As Forrest Church reminds us in Bringing God Home , the Chinese ideogram for the word "crisis" means both "danger" and "opportunity." The danger lies in surrendering to fear, love's true opposite; the opportunity is that crisis can bring us closer to God, and God closer to us. Using his own spiritual quest as a starting point, Church has written a book that will comfort and inspire readers of all backgrounds and creeds. "Religion," he writes, "sponsors more unholy violence than any other force on earth." But faith-when it leads to humility at the wonder of creation, and helps us see the one Light that shines through many windows-both opens our hearts and bind our wounds. Drawing insight and courage from poets, philosophers, and prophets from across the ages, and from ordinary people from across the street, Forrest Church challenges us to set out on the journey of our lives, and then guides our steps back home.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312282184
• ISBN13: 9780312282189
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A Moving and Personal Exploration of God and Life

Bringing God Home is a moving and personal exploration of God, of life, and of our many nomadic journeys to the divine. Forrest Church is a longtime Unitarian minister. He brings his many years of ministry to bear on his search for the divine and his search for himself. In between meditations on theology, he digs deep into his own experience. At the beginning, as he recounts his deepening dalliances with alcohol, he finds himself lost on his path toward God. Finding his way home again is what makes this book well worth the read.But this is not entirely a tale of "sin and redemption." It may leave you feeling restored, but it won't leave you with a treasure-trove of easy answers. Church sees the divine as one light, but we see that light shining through many windows. Underneath all that divides us is the source that brings us together.His writing is accessible, thoughtful, and patient. There are moments of light-hearted wit and moments of page-turning tension. There are so many entry points to this book. You can flip open to any page and find yourself carried along the journey from home and back again.