If the Bough Breaks . . .
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If the Bough Breaks . . .

When Faith and Politics Bend a Family Tree to Its Breaking Point

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

If the Bough Breaks . . .

When Faith and Politics Bend a Family Tree to Its Breaking Point

About this book

The 2016 presidential election and its aftermath ushered Danielle Hensley into a political, cultural, and spiritual reawakening that also revealed deep divides within her family of origin. She embarked on a quest to educate herself about her white privilege, pervasive judgmentalism, as well as racist, homophobic, and other bigoted ideologies among fellow Christians. She courageously faced hard truths, deep childhood wounds, and generational traumas, while learning the meaning of loyalty and what true love looks like in the face of seemingly insurmountable divides. If the Bough Breaks . . . examines the seemingly universal and growing chasm between the right and the left through the lens of a single family and within the context of the Episcopal Church, where such ideological, political, and spiritual differences can be as subtle as they are pernicious. Hensley's tale is also a love story, if an unconventional one. It is the love story of a daughter/sister/granddaughter/mother fighting passionately against external and internal forces that conspire to destroy love and to continue unhealthy cycles of abuse and denial in her family. It is an everyday shero's quest to cling to love and fight mightily for it, even if it means letting go of relationships that appear to be broken beyond repair. But are they truly, irreparably broken? Or can love, ultimately, triumph over fear--hers, theirs, and ours?

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Information

Publisher
Cascade Books
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781666789850
9781666789867
eBook ISBN
9781666789874
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religious Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface: Dearest Danielle
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Trumpocalypse Now
  5. Chapter 1: The Meme That Opened Pandora’s Box
  6. Chapter 2: Pressure Cookers
  7. Chapter 3: I Saw Something, So I Said Something
  8. Chapter 4: The Floodgate
  9. Chapter 5: No Rainbow after the Flood
  10. Chapter 6: How Will Your Vote Reflect Jesus?
  11. Chapter 7: The Color of White
  12. Chapter 8: Instagram and My White Privilege
  13. Chapter 9: The Canadian and Fake News
  14. Chapter 10: The Holy Grail
  15. Chapter 11: I Choose Her
  16. Chapter 12: In Deep
  17. Chapter 13: Building Bridges or Burning Them?
  18. Chapter 14: What If I’m Wrong?
  19. Chapter 15: Rainbows and Unicorns
  20. Bibliography

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