How Then Shall We Live?

* Reflections deal with issues that matter Author is a renowned preacher, broadcaster, and internationally known ethicistEssays by a preeminent Anglican figure on the salient issues of our time, &quote;issueson which I believe the Church should have a view,&quote; says Wells. The issues run thegamut from social, political, personal, life-cycle to theological. Some of the issues treated include Islam, migration, the rise of religiousextremism, dementia, Israel, marriage, LGBTQ identity, domestic violence, death,shame, old age, retirement, assisted dying, ecology, obesity, inequality, Brexit, andthe Trump presidential election. &quote;Sam Wells arguably has the liveliest, most agile, best informed, critically disciplinedmind in the entire Christian community; and he has a baptized heart of honesty,compassion, and passion to match his baptized mind. In this book he ranges overa cluster of complex issues, all the way from hard public questions of economicsand politics to the most pathos-filed personal issues of retirement, dementia, anddeath. Concerning every issue, Sam's sound judgment instructs us as he moveseasily from life to Scripture and back through church tradition. This book will servemany of us well who live with daily perplexities that admit no resolution.&quote;-Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary