Keeping place : reflections on the meaning of home
Home e-böcker
InterVarsity Press
2017
EISBN 9780830892242
The welcome of home.
Nostalgia: the longing for home.
Angel in the house: a brief history.
Taken in: the first maker of home.
Border crossings: on (not) staying put.
Perished things: and imperishable home.
The work of home.
A suffering servant: the labor of love.
House of God: the church as home.
Love and marriage: the routine work of I do.
Saying grace: feasting together.
Cathedral in time: a place called rest.
City of God: finally home.
Home is our most fundamental human longing. Jen Pollock Michel connects that desire with the story of the Bible, revealing a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome--and a church commissioned with this same work. Keeping Place offers hope to the wanderer, help to the stranded, and a new vision of what it means to live today longing for eternal home.
Nostalgia: the longing for home.
Angel in the house: a brief history.
Taken in: the first maker of home.
Border crossings: on (not) staying put.
Perished things: and imperishable home.
The work of home.
A suffering servant: the labor of love.
House of God: the church as home.
Love and marriage: the routine work of I do.
Saying grace: feasting together.
Cathedral in time: a place called rest.
City of God: finally home.
Home is our most fundamental human longing. Jen Pollock Michel connects that desire with the story of the Bible, revealing a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome--and a church commissioned with this same work. Keeping Place offers hope to the wanderer, help to the stranded, and a new vision of what it means to live today longing for eternal home.
