Lillian Daniel has served as the Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn in Chicago since 2004. A regular contributor to the Huffington Post, she is an editor at large for Christian Century Magazine, a contributing editor at Leadership Journal, and the host of the Chicago-based television show 30 Good Minutes. Her Huffington Post article "Spiritual but Not Religious? Please Stop Boring Me" gained widespread interfaith attention after going viral on the Web. She is the author of two previous books: Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony, and This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers. She has taught preaching at Yale Divinity School, Chicago Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago Divinity School.
"Here is why I love Lillian Daniel's writing: it is honest; it is
funny; and it teaches me about Mary and Martha via a yoga class.
The church she describes is the place that has sustained my
spiritual life when my own interior sense of God's presence has
faltered; and it is the place that, as often as not, is where I am
sitting when my sense of God's presence reignites."--Lauren F.
Winner, author of Girl Meets God and Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith
Crisis
"In short, zingy anecdotes, Daniel strikes out at what she sees at
the spiritual laziness of those who opt for "personal faith"
outside of a church community. Controversial but powerfully
argued."--Booklist, starred review
"Intelligent, inviting and nurturing, these essays...offer a rich
banquet for pastors, lifelong congregants, disaffected Christians,
and confused seekers alike."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Lillian is as fed up with bad religion as anyone else, but she's
also careful to celebrate good religion and good spirituality that
brings people to life and makes the world a better place. May her
book invite us to stop complaining about the Church we've
experienced and work on becoming the Church we dream of."--Shane
Claiborne, author and activist, facebook.com/ShaneClaiborne
"Marvelously gritty wit...an impassioned and winning case for why
church, community, and formal religious traditions are so integral
to creating a fulfilling life....her ideas are thought provoking
and infectious."--Booklist, Starred Review
"This is the wonderful, essential Lillian Daniel at her
best-earthy, perceptive, devout, tough-minded, angry and
laugh-out-loud funny, all in one. Daniel's easygoing style is just
right for revealing her great gift of finding God in the everyday.
Sometimes she is biting. Sometimes she is tender and often what she
says is stunningly beautiful."--Bob Abernethy, Executive Editor,
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, PBS
"You read some things because you have to or need to or ought to.
You'll read Lillian Daniel for the pure pleasure of pitch-perfect
writing-she has the rare talent of a "natural." Along the way,
you'll discover enrichment and insight that you needed and wanted
... Lillian cooks up a delicious and nourishing feast for readers.
Don't miss it!"--Brian McLaren, author of Why Did Jesus, Moses, the
Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? (brianmclaren.net)
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