Mending the World: Spiritual Hope for Ourselves and Our Planet

by Bruce G. Epperly and Lewis D. Solomon

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880913607
• ISBN13: 9781880913604
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Innisfree Press
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A fantastic guidance tool!

I reviewed this book for the Liguorian and was really impressed with it. First, I was amazed to find a Rabbi and a minister of the United Church of Christ collaborating on anything. That is so refreshing. Then, I was further shocked to find them teaching us about things like meditation. This book is destined to become a religious/spiritual classic! It offers sound and practical advice for learning to love yourself, your community, and your world. We should all read this book and apply the teachings of these two wise men.

A wholesome, spiritual, and life-affirming treatise

Collaboratively written by Lewis D. Solomon, a Jewish Rabbi, and Bruce G. Epperly, a minister of the United Church of Christ, Mending The World: Spiritual Hope For Ourselves And Our Planet is a wholesome, spiritual, and life-affirming treatise on how healing can be promoted among ourselves, our neighbors, and our planet. Presenting diverse tools for spiritual transformation (including prayer, meditation, imagination, and affirmation), Mending The World is a thoughtful and much needed contribution to human wisdom in these especially troubled and troubling times.

Hope for our world and for our spirits

Mending the World is a unique blend of wisdom from two great traditions. Out of this contrapuntal dance comes a new melody of hope for our future and for our lagging spirits during these difficult days. If you need encouragement, direction, or even practical ways to creatively deal with the bad news we hear each night on television, go to this book and find a wellspring of peace and hope.

A Crystal Vision

Mending The World is a treasure! It's a gift to find leaders of tradional faith who can step into Spirit together and then translate their experience for bretheren. These two men not only reveal the pathway for Christians and Jews to move beyond the mental barricades of religion, but suggest how we do so together, in the conscience of unity with and responsibility for all life on our planet. They clearly depict how mental, emotional and spiritual healing within ourselves and our relationships, regardless of circumstance, is a choice we learn to manifest moment by moment. They have in fact, updated Christ's message and that of the ancient scriptures, breathing fresh life into them, showing how they pertain to each and all. Their explanations of Sholom are a gift of expanded sight. And the map of recovery, so carefully outlined, touches each person in their place of darkness, spotlighting individual tasks of transformation. They then inspire by revealing how we inhale the innate power of our planet by accepting the spiritual assignment and holy adventure of living in recognition of our divinity.

A Work of Spiritual Stature

In a practical and highly accessible work that extensively explores the concept and practices of Shalom, two spiritual people, one Jewish and one Christian, together share the richness of thought that comes from affirming a spiritual commonality already implicitly existing between these religious traditions, and between established religion and spiritual seekers everywhere. "Mending the World" is a work of quiet stature, explicitly joining what has often been polarized and perceived as mutually exclusive theological traditions. "Mending" serves as a gentle reminder of the inherent mutuality that is evoked between all people as lives are intentionally grounded in the Source of their creation. "We are created for wholeness and abundance, and yet we live by scarcity and fear," Epperly and Solomon note early in their book before going on to personally add, "We live with the hope that new life can be breathed into old institutions and into the dryness of our own lives." Calling for a dynamic spirituality that is both highly open and mutually supportive, Epperly and Solomon remind readers of that ever present power of spiritual people everywhere, whether individually or joined in community, to gently accompany fellow seekers on respective spiritual journeys. In discussing and identifying signs of that new life commonly visible in both faith traditions, and offering readers an assortment of spiritual exercises to both explore and reclaim personal spiritual creative power, the authors companion their readers even as they encourage their readers to companion others in `mending the world.' Perhaps in reality it will one day be discovered that the world's fraction is ultimately no more than a human perception - some consequential occurrence resultant from ordering, ranking or judgment processes - self-imposed, but not inherent. In the meantime, "Mending the World" reminds the reader that we each exercise both the power and choice to accompany and companion one another in life and to further the wholeness into which we all were born. And that how we intimately relate to ourselves, and how we individually act towards others greatly contributes to our unique experience of life given, and to the transforming Shalom that God intends. "Mending" affirms the spiritual thought that whatever makes us distinct from one another is not as great as that which holds us all in common - a Divine Presence among us that creates and grounds our existence as it works creatively with each of us to heal and mend the world...