Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized teacher and the
author of numerous books, including Everything Belongs,
The Naked Now, Breathing Under Water, Falling
Upward, and Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of
Assisi. A Franciscan priest, he is the founder of the Center
for Action and Contemplation (CAC.org) and is Academic Dean of the
Living School for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Fr. Richard's teaching is grounded in Franciscan practices
of contemplation and self-emptying, expressing themselves in
radical compassion, particularly for the socially marginalized.
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Mike Morrell is the Communications Director for the Integral
Theology think tank Presence International, cofounder of The Buzz
Seminar, and a founding organizer of the justice, arts, and
spirituality Wild Goose Festival. He is also a futurist, an avid
writer, freelance journalist, author coach, publishing consultant,
and the curator of the book-reviewing community at
TheSpeakeasy.info. You can read his ongoing exploration of Spirit,
Culture, and Permaculture at MikeMorrell.org. Mike lives with his
wife and two daughters in North Carolina.
The Divine Dance is a joyful plunge into what is often dry
academic mystery. Richard Rohr shares his exploration into the
sacred and challenges us all to come along on the nourishing
journey to community.
--Simone Campbell, SSS
NETWORK Executive Director, lawyer, advocate, poet, and author,
A Nun on the Bus
NetworkLobby.org
The Divine Dance reminds us that God is a holy
community--Father, Son, Spirit. And that humanity is created in the
image of community, with a deep longing to love and be loved. This
book calls us to be like God--to belong to each other, to be one as
God is one, and to refuse to do life alone.
--Shane Claiborne
Activist and author, Jesus for President
RedLetterChristians.org
Humanity, says Richard Rohr, is a perfect rhyme for what
Christianity, trying to express the inexpressible, calls the holy
trinity. This human dance we're all in reflects a mysterious divine
dance, one that we notice on our best days. Finding the sweet spot
where contemporary science meets ancient mysticism, and theology
meets poetry, The Divine Dance sketches a beautiful
choreography for a life well-lived. In our joy or our pain, true
life is always relational, a flow, a dance. (And was always meant
to be.)
--Bono, U2
It's ironic that, while we have many religious institutions named
after the Trinity, we are increasingly plagued by feelings of
isolation and loneliness because we fail to truly experience this
mysterious Three-In-One. With wisdom, compassion, and deep
theological insight, Rohr and Morrell help readers begin to hear
the music, understand the invitation, and feel the joy that leads
our souls to enter into the Divine Dance.
--Sarah Thebarge
Author, The Invisible Girls
SarahThebarge.com
More and more people are struggling with conventional
understandings of God, like the big white guy on a throne with a
long beard and a fistful of swords and lightning bolts by which you
(or your enemies) might be smitten at any moment if you don't think
or act correctly. For many, the concept of Trinity simply triples
their God-problems. But in The Divine Dance, Richard Rohr
and Mike Morrell explore the Trinity as a pathway beyond
problematic understandings of God. This beautifully-written book
can do far more than change your troubled thoughts about God: it
can change your way of thinking about God entirely.
--Brian D. McLaren
Activist, speaker, and author, We Make the Road by
Walking
brianmclaren.net
Richard Rohr is one of the great spiritual masters of our time,
indeed of any time. His superb new book on the Trinity is vintage
Rohr: clearheaded, provocative, inspiring, challenging, and, most
of all, suffused with the presence of the Holy Spirit. The Trinity
will of course always remain a profound mystery, but after reading
Father Rohr's book, you will experience it as a mystery that can,
and will, transform your life.
--James Martin, SJ
Author, Jesus: A Pilgrimage and Seven Last Words
Rohr and Morrell have given us a liberating and yet totally
orthodox invitation into the life of God. This book is a
celebration of the Trinity, not as bad math (1+1+1=3), and not as
baffling mystery to avoid, but as the divine movement of love. I'm
grateful for a book that speaks God not with pretense and jargon,
but with wisdom and genuine human experience. The Divine
Dance is an example of why Rohr has had such a profound
influence on so many Christians seeking to balance reason and
mystery, action and contemplation, not to mention faith and real
life.
--Nadia Bolz-Weber
Pastor, House for All Sinners and Saints
Author, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong
People
NadiaBolzWeber.com
Seriously friends, this is Richard in peak form, doing what he does
best: showing you how the best ideas for the future have actually
been here, in the Jesus tradition, the whole time. In these pages
it's the Trinity--that old familiar word--that suddenly gets
infused with insight and electricity as you see just how practical
and helpful and healing and inspiring and provocative and dangerous
this conception of the Divine is. Our favorite Franciscan has done
it again!
--Rob Bell
Speaker, teacher, and author, Love Wins
RobBell.com
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