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Rumours of a Better Country
Searching for trust and community in a time of moral outrage
By Marsh Moyle
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Hyper-individualism and consumerism are failing to satisfy our hunger for meaning. We face an identity crisis in which real community is increasingly hard to find. The culture wars have been painful and polarising and have proved a poor way to agree any kind of moral standards. Is it even possible to find a vision for goodness that can bring us together? Rumours of a Better Country addresses our hunger for justice and a better way of living by awakening our moral imagination to the potential of a trusting community. Drawing on ancient wisdom and looking through the lens of daily reality, it shows how trust and trustworthiness must be the foundation for any kind of meaningful freedom. Through the questions and mysteries of the Café Now and Not Yet, readers will experience chance encounters with Palestinians in a pub in communist Czechoslovakia, appreciate an intriguing sculpture from Romania and hear post-communist Ukrainians struggling to imagine a better life. Each of these encounters provides a real-life context for a rich and provocative journey into the heart of goodness and why it matters. Moyle draws on the ancient wisdom of the Decalogue, carefully framed without religious jargon, to show the deeper principles, goodness and beauty that the Ten Commandments have to offer. Not only to individuals, but to culture as a whole. The approach here is similar to James K A Smith's You Are What You Love or On the Road with Saint Augustine. The book features theologically and philosophically sophisticated frameworks for human flourishing alongside narrative sections where the conversations in the book are played out by a cast of characters in the Café Now and Not Yet. This book offers readers the chance to imagine a better society for all. This is Marshs debut book, but it draws on 30 years of ministry across Eastern Europe, including speaking, publishing and even smuggling Bibles behind the Iron Curtain.
Hyper-individualism and consumerism are failing to satisfy our hunger for meaning. We face an identity crisis in which real community is increasingly hard to find. The culture wars have been painful and polarising and have proved a poor way to agree any kind of moral standards. Is it even possible to find a vision for goodness that can bring us together?
Rumours of a Better Country addresses our hunger for justice and a better way of living by awakening our moral imagination to the potential of a trusting community. Drawing on ancient wisdom and looking through the lens of daily reality, it shows how trust and trustworthiness must be the foundation for any kind of meaningful freedom.
Through the questions and mysteries of the Café Now and Not Yet, readers will experience chance encounters with Palestinians in a pub in communist Czechoslovakia, appreciate an intriguing sculpture from Romania and hear post-communist Ukrainians struggling to imagine a better life. Each of these encounters provides a real-life context for a rich and provocative journey into the heart of goodness and why it matters.
Moyle draws on the ancient wisdom of the Decalogue, carefully framed without religious jargon, to show the deeper principles, goodness and beauty that the Ten Commandments have to offer. Not only to individuals, but to culture as a whole. The approach here is similar to James K A Smith's You Are What You Love or On the Road with Saint Augustine. The book features theologically and philosophically sophisticated frameworks for human flourishing alongside narrative sections where the conversations in the book are played out by a cast of characters in the Café Now and Not Yet. This book offers readers the chance to imagine a better society for all. This is Marshs debut book, but it draws on 30 years of ministry across Eastern Europe, including speaking, publishing and even smuggling Bibles behind the Iron Curtain.