Worth Fighting For: Finding Courage & Compassion When Cruelty is Trending by John Pavlovitz
What's It About?
This inspiring volume features Pavlovitz’s most important writing from the past several years alongside brand-new essays to provide the encouragement, stamina, and direction we need to keep going, even when things feel bleak.It’s not enough to be sickened by the injustices and atrocities around us, we have to be a visible and vocal presence in the world, says writer/activist/pastor and storyteller John Pavlovitz.
We suffer from a “poverty of empathy.” We must fight for the people that we love, for the nation we dream of, for the causes that matter, for the world our children will inherit, for our relationship, and for our own health.
Such is the stuff Worth Fighting For: Finding Courage & Compassion When Cruelty is Trending (Westminster John Knox) is made of. Intentionally launching during this critical election year, Pavlovitz, the pastor who lost his church speaking up for the rights of the LGBTQ community, returns with his outspoken yet compassionate voice, his unique version of hope-in-a-book when it’s most needed.
Pavlovitz, who now reaches a growing audience through his online People’s Empathy Network and in public talks, encourages us not to give up. The tension of having to fight on so many fronts: for the people that we love, for the nation we dream of, for the causes that matter to us, for the world we want those to follow us to inherit, for our relationships and our own health may be exhausting, but Pavlovitz insists it’s worthwhile.
John is beloved and followed by many prominent thought leaders. His audience is gigantic with fans and followers that include Maria Shriver, Heather Cox Richardson, Thom Hartmann, and more. His writing is being called “prophetic and empathetic,” “inspires the courage we need to come together and fix what’s broken,” and “a national treasure.”
Here are some of the topics Pavlovitz addresses in the book:
∙ Fixing Relationships That These Days Have Broken
∙ How to Talk about Your Religious Beliefs (and Not Be a Total A** hole)
∙ The Mental Health Crisis of MAGA America
∙ Choosing Faith Over Fear
∙ Loving Toxic People (from a Distance)
∙ What to Do When You’re Losing Your Faith
∙ The Coalition of Those Who Give a Damn
∙ What is Worth Fighting For, Why, and How
ABOUT JOHN PAVLOVITZ
John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, activist, and storyteller from Wake Forest, North Carolina. Over the past decade, his thought-provoking blog, Stuff That Needs to Be Said, has reached a diverse worldwide audience with over 100,000,000views. A 25-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, Pavlovitz is committed to equality, diversity, and justice―both inside and outside faith communities. His books include A Bigger Table, Stuff That Needs to Be Said, and If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk. He currently directs Empathetic People Network, a vibrant online community that connects people from all over the world who want to create a more compassionate planet.
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