{"product_id":"9781514017067_sowing-shalom","title":"Sowing Shalom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJust as a seed is released into the soil, takes root, transforms underground, and bears fruit, racial healing is a deeply spiritual journey that mirrors the growth of creation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSowing Shalom\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers into a transformative journey of racial healing as spiritual formation, guided by the seasonal rhythms of letting go, nourishing, growing, and yielding. Through Scripture and contemplative practice, spiritual director and pastor Afrika Afeni Mills calls readers into vulnerability, humility, repair, and joy, and offers a pathway to cultivate the inner and communal conditions for beloved community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book invites all people into the healing journey, regardless of how they have been racialized. While fully honoring the disproportionate wounds carried by people of color through generations, it recognizes that racialization has wounded the entire human family--and wholeness requires a path forward for all of us, together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat you'll find in \u003ci\u003eSowing Shalom\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiritual practices like lectio divina, the examen, centering prayer, and imaginative prayer that help readers move beyond analysis into deeper transformation, compassion, courage, and hope\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRacial healing not merely as intellectual work or social analysis but as a spiritual journey that involves surrender, lament, confession, healing, reconnection, and growth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEncouragement to honor the slow, often-hidden process of transformation that mirrors the slow growth of the natural world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvitation to engage your own stories, grief, wounds, assumptions, and formation while learning how to move toward healing across racial difference and within community\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSowing Shalom\u003c\/i\u003e equips readers to engage the work of justice not just outwardly but as sacred work within the soul. Ideal for personal reading, contemplative retreats, and spiritual directors, this book is for anyone who longs for justice and healing, laments what has been lost, and believes that beloved community is still possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Afrika Afeni Mills","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41156780032049,"sku":"9781514017067","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9926\/3793\/files\/9781514017067.jpg?v=1785911291","url":"https:\/\/bakerbookhouse.com\/products\/9781514017067_sowing-shalom","provider":"Baker Book House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}