The Life Of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt and Repairing the World

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In this thoughtful collection, extraordinary people describe how faith is possible amid the tragedy and senselessness of contemporary existence. Their insights on community, prayer, suffering, religious observance, the choice to live with or without a god and the meanings that are gleaned from everyday life form an elegant meditation that acknowledges the desire to search for something beyond what we can see and measure. Features over 60 contributors, including Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Studs Terkel, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor and more.

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A rich feast of accumulated wisdom.Publishers Weekly (starred review)

This is a feast of ideas and insights, a banquet of hard-won wisdom to which you can return time and again when your hearts years for inspiration and your intellect for illumination.Bill Moyers

This is a book for being with. ...The Life of Meaningis more infused with wisdom than any I have seen in many, many a year.Phyllis Tickle

Author Bio

BOB ABERNETHY is the executive editor and host of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, which he developed and created for PBS in 1997. Before launching the series, he had served as a correspondent for NBC News for more than four decades, reporting from Washington, Los Angeles, London, and Moscow. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
WILLIAM BOLEs articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Commonweal magazines. A research fellow of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and an editorial consultant at Boston College, he lives in Andover, Massachusetts.