What I appreciate most is the narrator's commitment to the difficult, demanding dimensions of mercy. This practice is sweet, beautiful and hard! To be merciful, to live mercifully is to be changed, to be challenged, to risk losing things that once seemed dear and life-giving.
This is a particularly powerful read for my friends who've given much of their energies to confronting bigotry in the church and opening wide our doors in a spirit not of tolerance, but celebration and affirmation. Silas House draws on mystics like Saint Francis and Thomas Merton to sketch a faith that grounds justice and righteousness in the deep, deep soil of God's fertile and abundant love.
