An Invitation to Slow

Resist the Speed of Now, Make Space for Quiet, and Cultivate an Intentional Life

Mark R. McMinn, Lisa Graham McMinn

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9798385223510
  9798385223527
• eBook ISBN:
  9798385223534
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Denominations

We live in a day of fast information, fast fingers, fast food, fast shipping, fast words, fast anger, and fast judgment. Our fight-or-flight impulses keep us on high alert, aided by mobile devices that vibrate each time another crisis strikes. All this fastness can easily interfere with a slow, intentional life grounded in God's love. Christian faith has deep treasures and practices to offer us. How will we live, and who will we be in this highly charged era where politics, economics, environment, and social norms are under significant duress? Come explore quieter, more intentional ways of being, and how these might attune us to the slow work of God in order that we might love one another and the world as God does. Our chapters pair a lure to move fast with an invitation to slow. Becoming slow to anger is an invitation to empathy, slow to judge is an invitation to humility, and slow to grasp is an invitation to contentment. Ultimately, each of these invitations is a movement toward God.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Slow to Speak: An Invitation to Quiet
• Chapter 2: Slow to Grasp: An Invitation to Contentment
• Chapter 3: Slow to Fear: An Invitation to Courage
• Chapter 4: Slow to Anger: An Invitation to Empathy
• Chapter 5: Slow to Judge: An Invitation to Humility
• Chapter 6: Slow to Envy: An Invitation to Gratitude
• Chapter 7: Slow to Consume: An Invitation to Generosity
• Chapter 8: Slow to Isolate: An Invitation to Community
• Conclusion
• Bibliography