Unexpected gifts : discovering the way of community /

Heuertz, Christopher L., 1971-

Unexpected gifts : discovering the way of community / Christopher L. Heuertz. - New York : Howard Books, c2013. - xxvii, 205 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-203).

Setting the table: community, why bother? -- Failure: the patches make it beautiful -- Doubt: the difference between God and Santa -- Insulation: forgetting the fragrance -- Isolation: re-membering the baby -- Transition: thirty letters and a box of wooden planks -- Unknown self: the search for suti sana -- Betraying community: kissing each other to death -- Incompatibility: when together is too close -- Ingratitude: killing chickens in the golden city -- Grief: living among the dying -- Restlessness: faithful in the undramatic.

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Communities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Space--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Human geography.

BV 625 / .H48 2013