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    Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
    Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
    Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
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    Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

    Written by Diana Butler Bass

    Narrated by Diana Butler Bass

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    About this audiobook

    The author of the multiple award-winning Grounded and leading trend spotter in contemporary Christianity explores why gratitude is missing as a modern spiritual practice, offers practical suggestions for reclaiming it, and illuminates how the shared practice of gratitude can lead to greater connection with God, our world, and our own souls.

    More and more people are finding God beyond the walls of traditional religious institutions, but these seekers often miss the church community itself, including its shared spiritual practices such as gratitude. While four out of five Americans have told pollsters they feel gratitude in their daily lives, cultural commentator and religion expert Diana Butler Bass finds that claim to be at odds with the discontent that permeates modern society.

    There is a gap, she argues, between our desire to be grateful and our ability to behave gratefully—a divide that influences our understanding of morality, worship, and institutional religion itself. In Grateful, Bass challenges readers to think about the impact gratitude has in our spiritual lives, and encourages them to make gratitude a ""difficult and much-needed spiritual practice for our personal lives and to make a better world.""

    Grateful is partially an individual, emotional response to our circumstances, but research has shown that what we often miss is how much more it is a communal, actionable response. Bass examines this more unexpected experience of gratitude, and reveals how people and communities can practice it and thrive, whether or not they are part of a traditional religious community.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 3, 2018
    ISBN9780062801425
    Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
    Author

    Diana Butler Bass

    Diana Butler Bass (Ph.D., Duke) is an award-winning author of eleven books, popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and one of America's most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality, especially where faith intersects with politics and culture. Her bylines include The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN.com, Atlantic.com, USA Today, Huffington Post, Christian Century, and Sojourners. She has commented in the media widely including on CBS, CNN, PBS, NPR, CBC, FOX, Sirius XM, TIME, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and in multiple global news outlets. Her website is dianabutlerbass.com and she can be followed on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. She writes a twice-weekly newsletter - The Cottage - which can be found on Substack. 

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      It would have been nice to know that there are so much politics in this book. I feel like it should have been labeled as a political book. Wasn’t what I was expecting or looking for when I started the book. Good points were made, I just wasn’t in the proper mindset for a political book.