Serene Jones - Call It Grace
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A moving, personal reflection on the alchemy of race, gender, class, and theology in rural America and beyond written by one of the leading progressive theologians in the United States, Serene Jones.
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
I once listed my dear, spectacular friend Serene Jones as my spiritual adviser, and she is that and so much more. Our impassioned conversations across the last six years, and through travel and adventures together and apart, have shaped [my] writing in a thousand ways and flow all the way through it.
Krista Tippett, author of Becoming Wise and On Being
Theology is one of those words that sends people in another direction these days, but this book is a beautifully written reminder of what it might mean in reality. For a tired, divided, angry world, this volume is a great blessing.
Bill McKibben, author of Falter
Compelling as well as wise, the theology this book embodies arises from a life fully lived. Serene Jones is a wonderful storyteller whose wisdom is earnedwhich makes what she has to say both powerful and inspiring.
Betty Sue Flowers, book editor and series consultant, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
Serene Jones demonstrates the vitality of faith in a dangerous and uncertain world. She writes with passion about her joys as well as her sorrows. A book both inspirational and practical.
Bill Bradley, former U.S. senator and author of We Can All Do Better
Serene Jones, the first woman to head the Union Theological Seminary, is one of the most visible faces of the religious left.... Call It Grace discusses her Oklahoma background, her intellectual influences, and how concepts such as original sin and forgiveness fit into her vision of Christianity. That vision, at heart, encompasses the values of many progressives, even those who are nonbelievers. As she writes, the four foundations of her theology are the necessity of our interconnecting breath, the importance of struggling for justice, the beauty of mercy, and the ultimate power of love.
The New Yorker
Jones offers a deeply personal reflection on her spiritual journey and what it means to connect with the divine.... Moving, illuminating.
Lions Roar
Jones is a plainspoken, talented teacher and this moving memoir illustrates her deeply reflective ethics and eloquently captures Joness response to her lifes trials.
Publishers Weekly
[Joness] engaging stories illustrate complex theological and philosophical ideas, presenting a vision of hope for the future. This book makes a strong case for the progressive power of theology that will be appreciated by socially engaged readers.
Library Journal (starred review)
Serene Jones is the president of the historic Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. The first woman to head the 180-year-old institution, Jones occupies the Johnston Family Chair for Religion and Democracy. She is the past president of the American Academy of Religion. Jones came to Union after seventeen years at Yale University, where she was the Titus Street Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, and the chair of Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Jones is the author of several books, including Trauma and Grace. She is a child of the Oklahoma plains, a daughter of a university president and a single mother, a sister, a cancer survivor, a theologian, a minister, a news commentator, a public intellectual, and a devoted teacher.
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First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019
Published in Penguin Books 2020
Copyright 2019 by Serene Jones
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Excerpt from This Land Is Your Land, words and music by Woody Guthrie. WGP/TRO- Copyright 1956, 1958, 1970, 1972 (copyrights renewed) Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. and Ludlow Music, Inc., New York, New York. Administered by Ludlow Music, Inc.
ISBN 9780735223653 (paperback)
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS :
Names: Jones, Serene, 1959 author.
Title: Call it grace : finding meaning in a fractured world / Serene Jones.
Description: New York : Viking Books, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018055506 (print) | LCCN 2019006925 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735223660 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735223646 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Grace (Theology) | Theology. Classification: LCC BT761.3 (ebook) | LCC BT761.3 .J66 2019 (print) | DDC 234dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018055506
Penguin is committed to publishing works of quality and integrity. In that spirit, we are proud to offer this book to our readers; however, the story, the experiences, and the words are the authors alone. All names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved.
Cover design: Nayon Cho
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For my father, Joe R. Jones, and for my beloved Jones family
When people have asked me what kind of book I am writing, I have been tempted to name the four things that provide the foundation of my theology: the necessity of our interconnecting breath, the importance of struggling for justice, the beauty of mercy, and the ultimate power of love. I know, however, if I put it this way, most of them would politely change the topic to something more gripping, like a new favorite television series or the most recent political scandal. Id probably do the same if someone told me this is what his or her book is about.
If I told them, instead, that this book is about the horrific lynching of a young woman and her son in my grandpas hometown, or my mothers secret life, or a mystical experience I had in India, or the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by Timothy McVeigh and my concurrent tumultuous divorce, their interest would likely instantly spark. Dramatic topics like these have the power to grab ahold of us, make us want to hear the full story, provoke our desire to learn something we hadnt known or thought about before.
The most interesting thing to me about our innately human draw toward stories is the deeper truths they reveal about our conflicted human nature and our quest for meaning. In my own life, the most astonishing moments come when gracethat imponderable gift of Godbreaks through the surface of life and shines its light on all that is. There is no bigger, more dramatic story than this. When the inner workings of our lives are laid bare before us and we see ourselves for who we really are, and in a flash, it all makes mysterious, transcendent sensethats a truly amazing moment. It deserves our attention and is worthy of our questions.
Truth be told, everyone has dramatic stories to tell, if one dares to look closely at ones life: the tales of the horrible sins ones family has hidden, the shameful things one has done and regretted, the incomprehensible tragedies that knock out ones breath, the loves that have lasted and the loves that have failed. No question about it, the human drama is endlessly intriguing, disturbing, and quirky. Mine is not unusual in this regard.
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