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Review: Dorothy C. Bass, Editor, Practicing Our Faith, A Way of Life for a Searching People
. Includes Suggestions for Conversations and Reflections. Second Edition Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint. www..Josseybass.com
copyright 2010. ISBN 978-0-470-48411 paperback. $19.95.

This second edition is an important contribution to the on-going catechetical ministry of teaching our faith as something to be lived rather than only studied and learned.

The collection of topics and writers speaks for itself: I highly recommend this book:

This is the list for the Practices of Faith Series:

Dorothy C. Bass, Practicing our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People

Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time

Douglas A. Hicks, Money Enough: Everyday Practices for Living Faithfully in the Global Economy

Thomas G. Long, Testimony: Talking Ourselves into Being Christians

Bonnie Miller-McLemore, In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice

Stephanie Paulsell, Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice

Donald Saliers and Emily Saliers, A Song to Sing: A live to Live: Reflections on Music as a Christian Practice

Charles E. Wolftreich, Lord, Have Mercy: Praying for Justice with Conviction and Humility

This is the contents of the second edition of the Manual Practicing our Faith:

Chapter 1: Times of Yearning, Practices of Faith by Craig Dykstra and Dorothy C. Bass

Chapter 2: Honoring the Body by Stephanie Paulsell

Chapter 3: Hospitality by Ana Maria Pincda

Chapter 4: Household Economics by Sharon Daloz Parks

Chapter 5: Saying Yes and Saying No by M. Shawn Copeland

Chapter 6: Keeping Sabbath by Dorothy C. Bass

Chapter 7: Testimony by Thomas Hoyt Jr.

Chapter 8: Discernment by Frank Rogers Jr.

Chapter 9: Shaping Communities by Larry Rasmussen

Chapter 10: Forgiveness by L. Gregory Jones, Mary Luke

Chapter ll: Healing by John Koening

Chapter 12: Dying Well by Amy Plantinga Pauw

Chapter 13: Singing Our Lives by Don E. Saliers

Chapter 14: Practicing a Way of Life by Dorothy C. Bass and Craig Dykstra

Chapter 15: A Way of Thinking About a Way of Life by Craig Dykstra and Dorothy C. Bass