num_pages: 246
description: Starred Review Publishers Weekly : Fans of Elizabeth Cunningham Anne Lamott and Nadia Bolz-Weber will be delighted with this new exciting voice.SH l m' / sis A woman who loves people follows the Prince of Peace and never gives up her sass. Shalom the Hebrew word often translated as peace was a far cry from blogger and podcaster Osheta Moore's crazy life. Like a lot of women she loved God's dream for a world that is whole vibrant and flourishing. But who's got the time? So one night she whispered a dangerous God show me the things that make for peace. In Shalom Sistas Moore shares what she learned when she challenged herself to study peace in the Bible for forty days. Taking readers through the twelve points of the Shalom Sistas' Manifesto Moore experiments with practices of everyday peacemaking and invites readers to do the same. From dropping love bombs on a family vacation to talking to the coach who called her son the n-word to spreading shalom with a Swiffer Moore offers bold steps for crossing lines between black and white suburban and urban rich and poor. What if a bunch of Jesus-following women catch a vision of a vibrant whole flourishing world? What happens when Shalom Sistas unite?
language: English
title: Shalom Sistas: Living Wholeheartedly in a Brokenhearted World
publisher: Herald Press