Church as Sanctuary: Reconstructing Refuge in an Age of Forced Displacement Christian Living_ Inspirational

Church as Sanctuary: Reconstructing Refuge in an Age of Forced Displacement Christian Living_ InspirationalCatholic Media Association Award Winner First Place Catholic Social Teaching *Advance Praise and Reviews* "Offers a bold new ecclesiology that has both material and symbolic import, transforming the faithful's self understanding of what it means to be church, as well as the use of church property as refuge." Nancy Pineda Madrid, Loyola Marymount University, Theological Studies This book brings hope for understanding the church as a site of refuge,

" —Tripp Fuller

Drawing on insights from a wide range of au­thors who write on prayer and the spiritual life

and a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter

And because it has displayed the boldness of a pioneer

Merton Seasonal

in Catholic Books Review

”—Rhonda Magee

instead calling us to resist oppressive powers by remembering rightly

and bigger than politics

and the deep theological insight of Teilhard de Chardin

“As theologians

These questions are universal