When Your Life Is on Fire
What Would You Save?
by Erik Kolbell
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Pub Date Mar 31 2014 | Archive Date Jan 08 2015
Description
If your life were on fire, what would be the one thing you save?
Progressive minister and psychotherapist Erik Kolbell asks that question of 13 remarkable and unique individuals. The answers are provided by such notable people as journalist Jane Pauley, actor Alan Alda, and jazz impresario Regina Carter, as well as Brenda Berkman, a New York City firefighter who responded to the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11, and Don Lange, a U.S. Veteran severely injured in the Iraq war. The insights of these and other ordinary people put into extraordinary situations, will help all of us consider what it is that we value most in life.
Advance Praise
"In When Your Life Is On Fire Erik Kolbell listens, provokes, and most of all, shares with us the enduring lessons and insights of life and faith as realized by a diverse population of thoughtful people. It's a town hall of the soul."
—Tom Brokaw
"Life happens, and as it does we are choosing, in every moment, who to be and what to value. Erik Kolbell's wonderful new book prompts us to reflect just a little more intentionally on what we hold most dear, with lovely and unnerving examples of how in doing so we might be irrevocably changed."
–Dr. Alison
Boden, Dean of the Chapel, Princeton University
In this provocative book, Kolbell simply poses the question to each of 13 individuals – what do you value above all else in your life? With a spectacular range of personalities and experiences, what emerges is compelling testimony and strong affirmation of their intrinsic dignity and infinite value, the profound sacredness and meaningfulness of each of these unique, mysterious, beautiful persons.
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Joseph McGowan, President, Bellarmine University
Erik Kolbell invites us to reflect on what we especially value in our lives, in the company of thirteen remarkable individuals. Their compelling life stories illuminate the richness and variety of human possibilities and the "feast of differences" that he sets before us.
– Sissela Bok, Ethicist and Author of Common Values
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780664236892 |
| PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
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