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Circle of Hope A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

By Eliza Griswold

"Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for--and finding--more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus. This is the story of one such 'radical outpost of Jesus followers, ' dedicated to service, the Sermon on the Mount, and working toward justice for all in this life, not just salvation for some in the next.

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish Date: 08/06/2024
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780374601683
ISBN-10: 0374601682
Language: Eng

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Named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Book of 2024 and NPR's Books We Love 2024
A National Book Award Finalist

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year (So Far) and Los Angeles Times Must-Read "Glows on every page . . . nearly miraculous."
--The Boston Globe "Marvelous."
--The New York Times From the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold, Circle of Hope is an intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis. "The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church."

Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for--and finding--more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus. This is the story of one such "radical outpost of Jesus followers" dedicated to service, the Sermon on the Mount, and working toward justice for all in this life, not just salvation for some in the next. Part of a little-known yet influential movement at the edge of American evangelicalism, Philadelphia's Circle of Hope grew for forty years, planted four congregations, and then found itself in crisis. The story that follows is an American allegory full of questions with urgent relevance for so many of us, not just the faithful: How do we commit to one another and our better selves in a fracturing world? Where does power live? Can it be shared? How do we make "the least of these" welcome? Building on years of deep reporting, the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold has crafted an intimate, immersive, tenderhearted portrait of a community, as well as a riveting chronicle of its transformation, bearing witness to the ways a deeply committed membership and their team of devoted pastors are striving toward change that might help their church survive. Through generational rifts, an increasingly politicized religious landscape, a pandemic that prevented gathering to worship, and a rise in foundation-shaking activism, Circle of Hope tells a propulsive, layered story of what we do to stay true to our beliefs. It is a soaring, searing examination of what it means for us to love, to grow, and to disagree.

About the Author

Eliza Griswold is the author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam , which won the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.

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