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Cascade Books
04 April 2025
Pathways to Belonging is an invitation to an experience of community, connection, and meaning. We need belonging as much as we need air to fill our lungs. But alienation, isolation, and distrust are the everyday markers of our lives--including our faith communities. The twenty-two contributors in this book offer an engaging path forward, inviting readers to the promise and peril of Christian belonging. Belonging matters now more than ever. Indeed, belonging is the question of this generation. Like the air we breathe, belonging is also a matter of life and death. In an age of self-help strategies and shiny lives, the contributors to this volume are grounded in the depths of lived experience. Contextual, story-driven, and representing a global network of thought leaders, each chapter equips individuals and communities to take the next step. Pathways to Belonging points the way to the expansive, flourishing life for which we yearn.
Foreword by:  
Edited by:   , ,
Imprint:   Cascade Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   445g
ISBN:   9798385203338
Pages:   204
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dustin D. Benac is a clinical assistant professor and the director and co-founder of the Program for the Future Church at Baylor University. He is the author of Adaptive Church (2022), co-editor of Crisis and Care: Meditations on Faith and Philanthropy (2021), and editor at Practical Theology, an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal. Erin Weber-Johnson is partner and senior consultant at Vandersall Collective, a faith-based, women- and queer-led consulting firm, and primary faculty of Project Resource. She is a regular contributor to Church Anew as well as other online platforms. Her co-edited book, Crisis and Care: Meditations on Faith and Philanthropy, is available through Cascade Books. Glen Bell is senior vice president for development of the Presbyterian Foundation. A graduate of McCormick Theological Seminary, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife Anne. He has previously written for Journal for Preachers, Presbyterian Outlook, and Family Ministry.

Reviews for Pathways to Belonging

""These authors are glorious in their diversity and enriching in the texture of their illustrative power. The result is a medium that communicates a subtle yet timely message: we do not know who we each are apart unless we attend to who we all are together."" --Samuel Wells, vicar, St Martin-in-the-Fields ""Pathways to Belonging offers an anecdotal and academic approach to exploring how we might better embrace one another. The varied perspectives provide a complex and compelling bricolage of what it looks like to form communities where everyone has a place prepared for them."" --Jill Duffield, senior pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, North Carolina ""[With] the opening invitation and a final meditation framing the movement of belonging and using the metaphors of the valley of dry bones and the miracle of Pentecost, Pathways to Belonging . . . is an attempt to reclaim the air we breathe--belonging. Structure and the Spirit stand as resources for sustaining cultures of belonging. Like the stations of the cross for a Jerusalem pilgrim, Pathways to Belonging presents stations of the cross on the way to belonging."" --Stephen Breck Reid, vice provost for faculty diversity and belonging, Baylor University


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