An American Awakening: From Ground Zero to Katrina: The People We are Free to Be
Courtney Cowart is an author of grace - as a subject matter, as in the elegance of her art, and as a person who knows it when she sees it and can respond to it with her whole heart.  Grace cannot be planned, manufactured, packaged, or earned.  It is different each time.  How then can the church know it when it happens and clear the way for its power?  Courtney Cowart's graceful story shows how. --Jerome Berryman, Founder of Godly PlayCourtney Cowart's book is a deeply moving account of the kind of discipleship that is possible in some very dark places of human suffering.  It is a real proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus and the freedom for service that it generates. --Archbishop Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of CanterburyOn the surface, this is an autobiography.  In reality, it is a true story about the spirit of Anglicanism and the power of caritas.  It will move you to tears, but pray God it will also move each of us to confess the truth behind the disparity in how we as a people dealt with the twin horrors of 9/11 and Katrina. --Phyllis Tickle, Author, The Great Emergence, Religion Editor (ret.), Publishers WeeklyThere is enough here to recall Episcopalian cadences . . . a rector, a vicar, a bishop who deliberately exhibits purple, and an archbishop stirred into the mix.  But the narrative offered is not an Episcopalian one.  It is rather a raw human account of day-to-day care and generosity that is marked by faith and that smacks of courageous staying power.  It is a narrative of immense power that invites recovery of human dignity, neighborly solidarity, and active hope. --Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary, Renowned biblical scholarThis is a good book about real hope.  Courtney Cowart looks at two unspeakable tragedies and dares to think there is an important change in the soul of America.  She writes beautifully about the river of civic virtue we have witnessed in the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and thinks it has brought us to a better, more human and hopeful place. --John Buchanan, Publisher of The Christian Century