
Tension in the Tank
Embracing Interfaith Mysticism Without Leaving the Church
Barbara Lee(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 27. March 2014
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-4982-6946-9 (ISBN)
Description
Tension in the Tank meets us where we are on a faith journey that includes doubt and pain. Here is a voice that speaks to the beauty and value of interfaith understanding and liberal social values while digging deep into the heart of Christian mysticism. If we are living a spirituality that matters, it will affect the way we treat ourselves and the way we treat each other. Tension in the Tank is about faith that is relevant, secure, and ever-evolving. It is a guidebook for building meaningful relationships with Spirit, self, and each other. Radically open to possibility and wonder, Tension in the Tank offers the opportunity and the challenge to live our faith in such a way that the walls between us come down and we become pursuers and enactors of universal justice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-6946-9 (9781498269469)
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03/2014
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About the author
Just twenty-seven days after the Peace Treaty was signed to end WWII, Barbara Lee was born in a small Texas town that had been home to Fort Wolters, an Army infantry base. Her parents had lived during both of the 'Big Wars and were part of the post-war culture that didn't talk about the wars. The "Golden Age" emerged, and with it a new shift in advertising that promoted an idealized, picture-perfect life. Talk about war, loss, or anything sad became taboo. It would be several decades and wars later before the results of these unrealistic presentations of 'normal' life would find its tipping point and a breakdown in society and governmental denial followed. Eventually, governments began offering counseling for the millions of veterans suffering from war-induced PTSD. Grief counseling began to be more recognized and expanded into the general population.
Barbara grew up during the era of 'social silence' about loss and grief, and only when her son died in an auto accident in 1995, did she reach out to a grief counselor. Through conversations with her therapist, she began the long process of healing not only that loss, but also realized she had a lifetime of other losses that she had never addressed. She also came to understand that loss is not only experienced emotionally and physically, but at its core it is spiritual. She began to understand that the Soul has a garden, and that the soul's garden has seasons, just like the gardens we tend in our yards.