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Spiritual Timekeeping in a New Year with James K. A. Smith

Reimagining the Good Life with Amy Julia Becker

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We Don't Need Coaches, We Need Prophets

The murder of George Floyd by police in the United States was a catalyst for this book. "I needed to sort of face and grapple with and reckon with the history that I had undergone as a person, as a son, as an individual," he says. The prophetic moment is about reckoning with our past, which means that sometimes we need people to show it to us because we happily turn a blind eye to the parts that we don't want to face.

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