World on Fire

Walking in the Wisdom of Christ When Everyone’s Fighting About Everything

• Author(s): Hannah Anderson, Jada Edwards, Jasmine L. Holmes, Rachel Gilson, Ashley Marivittori Gorman, Rebecca McLaughlin, Jen Pollock Michel, Elizabeth Woodson, Mary Wiley,
• Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
• Pages: 160
• ISBN_10: 108775383X
  ISBN_13: 9781087753836
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Christian Living / Social Issues , Religion / Christian Living / Women's Interests , Religion / Christian Ministry / Discipleship , Religion / Christian Living / General , Religion / Christian Ministry / General ,

Description:... Does it feel like no matter where you look or what the issue is, everyone seems to be fighting about everything?

We live in the information age, with more access to knowledge than ever before, flowing to us in a never-ending digital stream of updates, statistics, polls, opinions, news, and narratives from those on opposing sides of any issue. And while we’d assume this influx of information would help us find a good, informed way forward in our culture, it actually stirs up all sorts of anger, anxiety, and even loneliness. This all contributes to an increasingly defensive society that feels like it’s not only fracturing, but could go up in flames at any moment.

If you’re anything like the contributors to World on Fire, you’ve realized that all this knowledge isn’t the same thing as wisdom. While our world relies on expected, reflexive, status-quo, earthly wisdom to make a way forward or take a side on any given issue, Christ would rather us rely on his unexpected, counterintuitive, going-against-the- grain, heavenly wisdom as outlined in his famous Beatitudes. This surprising wisdom is not a call to be removed from the fire we feel blazing around us, but one to engage and tame it—beginning with our own hearts.

Whatever those nearest you seem to be arguing about today, and no matter what the fire looks like in your neck of the woods, Jesus has an answer for the ways his kingdom citizens should walk as they navigate the flames in his power and posture. In their own unique voice and in their own unique way, each contributor in World on Fire welcomes you to come explore not only some of the polarizing issues of our day, but how the unexpected wisdom of Jesus might help us be more discerning and Christlike amidst them.