Keep Watch with Me
An Advent Reader for Peacemakers
Published on 1. October 2019
145 pages
978-1-5018-7634-9 (ISBN)
Description
Keep Watch With Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers is a collaborative daily devotional featuring diverse contributors: black, white, LGBTQ, Latinx, Palestinian, incarcerated, Native American, Australian, Americans, Irish, South African, clergy, laity, activists, authors, organizers, and more. The season of Advent, as the church prepares for the birth of Christ, is a penitential season of reckoning with our need and the needs of the world. Keep Watch With Me offers stories, reflections, prayers, and spiritual practices to sustain and challenge the faith of those who work for justice and peace, and long for the coming of God with us.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2019
Abingdon Press
€15.40
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Michael T. McRay is a writer, facilitator, and story-practitioner living in Nashville, Tennessee. He's the author of multiple books, including the forthcoming I Am Not Your Enemy: Stories to Transform a Divided World (Herald Press, 2020). Michael is the Southeast Regional Manager for the global story nonprofit Narrative 4, and he also hosts Tenx9 Nashville Storytelling. He holds a graduate degree in conflict resolution and reconciliation from Trinity College Dublin at Belfast. He leads narrative retreats and speaks on story, conflict, reconciliation, and forgiveness. You can follow him @michaeltmcray on social media and through his blog at
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- December 1
- December 2
- December 3
- December 4
- December 5
- December 6
- December 7
- December 8
- December 9
- December 10
- December 11
- December 12
- December 13
- December 14
- December 15
- December 16
- December 17
- December 18
- December 19
- December 20
- December 21
- December 22
- December 23
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day
- Using Keep Watch with Me with Groups
- Keeping Watch Together
- Acknowledgments
