Hope and Other Superpowers
A Life-Affirming, Love-Defending, Butt-Kicking, World-Saving Manifesto
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Overwhelmed by the news cycle and the state of affairs in our world? Pastor, blogger, and powerful voice in the Resistance, John Pavlovitz has the answer: this rousing and inspirational guide, drawing from lessons of our favorite superheroes, for how we can band together, live more heroically (and meaningfully), and save the world.
It’s exhausting to give a damn these days, isn’t it? Perhaps you’re feeling anguished about what you see on the news or in your social media timeline, or by your personal circumstances, and are paralyzed waiting for political or religious leaders, or celebrities, to rescue us from it all.
But what if you didn’t have to wait for someone else?
What if you could be the hero?
This book—a spirited call to action—shows you how.
In these pages, John offers a path away from the vitriol and toward compassion, and a plan to transform our burdens into dreams and our outrage into activism. Drawing from lessons of beloved fictional superheroes, John shows us how to identify our origin story, build protective suits of armor, guard against our personal kryptonite, and vanquish our villains. He also identifies ten specific “superpowers” that we can enlist to make our lives and our world better. Along the way, he shares inspiring anecdotes and profiles about ordinary people who saw a gap in the world in empathy or kindness or gratitude and decided to fill it.
Hope and Other Superpowers is an invitation to anyone hoping to be the kind of person the world so desperately needs—the kind who can save it. In other words: it’s an invitation to you.
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North Carolina pastor and blogger Pavlovitz (A Bigger Table) calls readers to action in response to the highly partisan cultural climate in this enjoyable book. Pavlovitz begins with a road map for activism and asks readers to consider key traits for cultivating personal and spiritual growth: compassion, sacrifice, courage, humor, humility, honesty, creativity, persistence, wonder, and gratitude. Pavlovitz's honest examination of his own shortcomings is refreshing and reassures readers that mistakes and vulnerabilities can be seen as opportunities for positive transformation. He advises seeking out the company of like-minded people and being open to criticism and opposition in the pursuit of advocacy work. He is critical of the Trump administration and clear on his stance about hot-button issues such as immigrant rights and the need for civility in political discourse. Asking readers to reach back to a time before they felt burdened by the systemic problems of the world, Pavlovitz rouses with his call for everyone to become an "ordinary superhero." This is not a Bible-based work, and sensitive readers should be forewarned that curse words abound. Readers looking to channel distress into self-betterment will definitely want to pick this up.
