Practicing Balance: How Congregations Can Support Harmony in Work and Life
This book on religion and work-life needed to be written and must be read. David Gray offers profound redefinitions (the real balance is between activities that deplete versus enhance our energy), insightful questions for reflection, and extremely helpful advice about how religious practices can make us live calmer and more purposeful lives.(Ellen Galinsky, President, Families and Work Institute and author of "Mind in the Making")David Gray’s work is not just a handbook for the new generation of American Church leaders, he offers us a refreshing testimony to the way spiritual practice and flexibility can ensure the high wire act of balancing work inside and outside the home becomes—truly—a closer walk with God.(Chloe Breyer, Executive Director, The Interfaith Center of New York; associate priest at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in New York; author of "The Close".)For increasing communities of American culture, religious life is overwhelmed by secular busyness and complexity. Families hungry for faith are struggling to survive the flood. David Gray sees this silent tsunami and offers a lifeboat of ancient practice to carry church leaders forward to a faith filled habitable land.(Gareth W. Icenogle, Pastor, West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ)