Hopes and Fears: Everyday Theology for New Parents and Other Tired, Anxious People
Moses and McCleneghan have crafted a theology of family that is smart, faithful, and wonderfully expansive. There’s a place for the how-to guides that cover the logistics of parenting. But there’s also a place forHopes and Fears,which reflects on the soul of parenting: the top of the bedside stack.(Katherine Willis Pershey, author of "Any Day a Beautiful Change")Hopes and Fearsinjects some much-needed spiritual wisdom into the sometimes wild, always messy world of baby boot camp—and beyond. Amid the diapers, day care, and discipline, McCleneghan and Moses assure us that God is present in surprising ways. The result is a book that both comforts and challenges. Hopes and Fears is warmly accessible even as it takes us to remarkable new places.(MaryAnn McKibben Dana, author of "Sabbath in the Suburbs: A Family's Experiment with Holy Time")This is a book you can pick up when you are sleep-deprived and emerge laughing with recognition and buoyed by grace. The authors are honest and generous in sharing their parental struggles, joys, hopes and fears. They welcome us into their sticky-floor kitchens and surprise us with moving reflections on faith.(Heidi Neumark, author of "Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx")When looking at the broad landscape of Christianity, we recognize that we stand in an amazing time. Women, who juggle the worries of pregnancy, the thrill of babies, and the exhaustion of breastfeeding, also proclaim the Word of God, pour the waters of baptism, and break the bread of life. In Hopes and Fears, Bromleigh McCleneghan and Lee Hull Moses acknowledge this revolutionary moment through showing us how ordinary it is. By cultivating the rich ground of motherhood and ministry they present us with an abundance of messy, beautiful, and human theology.(Carol Howard Merritt, author of "Tribal Church" and "Reframing Hope")