Richard Rohr - Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

Seriously friends, this is Richard in peak form, doing what he does best: showing you how the best ideas for the future have actually been here, in the Jesus tradition, the whole time. In these pages its the Trinitythat old familiar wordthat suddenly gets infused with insight and electricity as you see just how practical and helpful and healing and inspiring and provocative and dangerous this conception of the Divine is. Our favorite Franciscan has done it again!

Rob Bell
Speaker, teacher, and author, Love Wins
RobBell.com

More and more people are struggling with conventional understandings of God, like the big white guy on a throne with a long beard and a fistful of swords and lightning bolts by which you (or your enemies) might be smitten at any moment if you dont think or act correctly. For many, the concept of Trinity simply triples their God-problems. But in The Divine Dance , Richard Rohr and Mike Morrell explore the Trinity as a pathway beyond problematic understandings of God. This beautifully-written book can do far more than change your troubled thoughts about God: it can change your way of thinking about God entirely.

Brian D. McLaren
Activist, speaker, and author, We Make the Road by Walking
brianmclaren.net

Rohr and Morrell have given us a liberating and yet totally orthodox invitation into the life of God. This book is a celebration of the Trinity, not as bad math (1+1+1=3), and not as baffling mystery to avoid, but as the divine movement of love. Im grateful for a book that speaks God not with pretense and jargon, but with wisdom and genuine human experience. The Divine Dance is an example of why Rohr has had such a profound influence on so many Christians seeking to balance reason and mystery, action and contemplation, not to mention faith and real life.

Nadia Bolz-Weber
Pastor, House for All Sinners and Saints
Author, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
NadiaBolzWeber.com

The Divine Dance reminds us that God is a holy communityFather, Son, Spirit. And that humanity is created in the image of community, with a deep longing to love and be loved. This book calls us to be like Godto belong to each other, to be one as God is one, and to refuse to do life alone.

Shane Claiborne
Activist and author, Jesus for President
RedLetterChristians.org

Its ironic that, while we have many religious institutions named after the Trinity, we are increasingly plagued by feelings of isolation and loneliness because we fail to truly experience this mysterious Three-In-One. With wisdom, compassion, and deep theological insight, Rohr and Morrell help readers begin to hear the music, understand the invitation, and feel the joy that leads our souls to enter into the Divine Dance.

Sarah Thebarge
Author, The Invisible Girls
SarahThebarge.com

Richard Rohr is one of the great spiritual masters of our time, indeed of any time. His superb new book on the Trinity is vintage Rohr: clearheaded, provocative, inspiring, challenging, and, most of all, suffused with the presence of the Holy Spirit. The Trinity will of course always remain a profound mystery, but after reading Father Rohrs book, you will experience it as a mystery that can, and will, transform your life.

James Martin, SJ
Author, Jesus: A Pilgrimage and Seven Last Words

The Divine Dance is a joyful plunge into what is often dry academic mystery. Richard Rohr shares his exploration into the sacred and challenges us all to come along on the nourishing journey to community.

Simone Campbell, SSS
NETWORK Executive Director, lawyer, advocate, poet,
and author, A Nun on the Bus
NetworkLobby.org

This is Christianity, awake. In The Divine Dance , Fr. Rohr and Mike Morrell inspire the mind and open the heart by exploring how a more robust Trinitarian theology can enliven faith in a way thats rooted not only in Christian tradition, but in wisdom, experience, and love.

Michael Gungor
Musician and author, The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse
GungorMusic.com

Part devotional, part theological (re)introduction to the Holy Trinity, The Divine Dance sheds light on a few of the moves that will get your pew-weary muscles up and moving again. But be warnedits hard to dance without touching!

Jennifer Knapp
Singer/songwriter and author, Facing the Music
JenniferKnapp.com

I would never call myself a mystic, or a contemplative. My life of faith runs at warp speed. The Creator inspires me to produce worship that is cacophonous and joyful; Jesus catapults me into battles for a more just society; and the Spirit tosses me into rigorous loving of neighbor and self. This lovely book caused me to slow down, to be present, to attend and be curious about the partners in the Divine Dance. I felt as though Father Rohr was sitting with me at tea, that Mike Morrell was with us, weaving language, painting an intimate portrait God, Jesus, and Holy Spiritthe mystery of the Trinity. Each Person is more alive, now, circling in my heartis it a waltz? A two-step? Even hip-hop? This book must be on your shelf: clergy, lay leaders, activists, and academics. For reflection and sustenance. To remember our likeness with Holy. To be invited to the dance.

The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
Senior Minister, Middle Collegiate Church (New York City)
Host, Just Faith (MSNBC.com); author, The Power of Stories
JacquiJLewis.com

The three are one? Well, yes. One dynamic reality, one joyful noise, one glorious flowing explosion of sacred suchness! A daring doctrine indeed. As a Jewish Hindu Buddhist Sufi, I finally get it. God is love and love is unendingly unfoldingpermeating and transforming and connecting All That Is. The Divine Dance may well be Richard Rohrs most important book.

Mirabai Starr
Author, God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
MirabaiStarr.com

The Divine Dance is not only Richard Rohrs best book; its the best book on the Trinity Ive ever read. Tender, human, both pastorally and psychologically brilliant, this is the work Rohr was born to dothe theological master grid that illumines a lifetime of teaching. While the depth and the scope of the book are enormous, The Divine Dance is most marked by its shimmering, revelatory clarity. The writing, like our three-in-one God, dances. For Rohr and Morrell, the Trinity is not just the revelation of God but the revelation of everything. I wept, I worshipped, I started all over again. An instant spiritual classic.

Jonathan Martin
Author, How to Survive a Shipwreck
JonathanMartinWords.com

This book is essential to anyone who has ever suffered under the impression of an angry King God who sits on a throne and judges the wicked. The Divine Dance illuminates the beautiful implications of a God who is truly Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, whose very being is formed by relationshipand in doing so reclaims the essential good of Christian belief.

Mike McHargue
Author, Finding God in the Waves
MikeMcHargue.com

The Divine Dance is a radical rediscovery of the Trinity for our generation, providing an expanded understanding of the divine flow of the Trinity and how it provides a framework for everythingour relationships, our sexuality, our self-worth, and our spirituality. Its an enlightening read for all Christians who have struggled to understand the Trinity beyond an impersonal doctrine, and illuminates how the integration of the Trinity sets us all on a path to spiritual integration, vulnerability, and wholeness.

Kristen Howerton
Writer
rageagainsttheminivan.com

The Divine Dance invites you into the heart of Christian mysticism: the lavish ever-expanding love of God. Richard Rohr and Mike Morrell show how the triune God is more than a philosophical conceptthe Trinity is a joyous celebration of love and life, and we are all called to participate. This is not a book merely to be read or studied; it is meant to be lived .