For Maya

There is a child, somewhere in the world, who will inherit what you leave behind. She is not your descendant. You will never meet her. She may not even be born for another hundred years. But what you do with the years you have left will, in some small but real way, decide what kind of world she is born into.
For Maya is Jim Parker's argument for taking that responsibility seriously.
The book offers a new moral compass — one Parker calls a horizontal faith. Most religions point vertically, toward the heavens. This one points sideways, across time, toward a single future child who has no claim on you and will never know your name. It asks nothing of the faith you already hold or do not, and it works for readers of any political stripe.
If you have felt that something important is slipping, and that no one is naming it plainly, this book was written for you.