Foreword by Michael Card
Introduction: Created for Communion
Part 1: Spiritual Bodies
1. This is Your Brain on God
2. Born Connectors
3. Monkey See, Monkey Do
4. Life Together
5. Wired for Intimacy
6. A Path Through Suffering
Part 2: Spiritual Growth
7. Practicing the Disciplines
8. Worship: Engaging the Senses
9. Acts of Service
Part 3: It Works!
10. Neuro-transformation
11. The Great Physician
12. Going Public with the Good Life
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
In a career that spans 30 years, Michael Card has recorded over 31 albums, authored or co-authored over 24 books, hosted a radio program, and written for a wide range of magazines. An award-winning musician and performing artist, he has penned such favorites as "El Shaddai," "Immanuel" and many other songs. He has branched his ministry beyond music and written numerous books, including A Sacred Sorrow, A Violent Grace, The Parable of Joy and Sleep Sound in Jesus (a children's book). He has also written the Biblical Imagination Series, with a book and accompanying music CD for each of the four gospels. A graduate of Western Kentucky University with a bachelor's and master's degree in biblical studies, Card also serves as mentor to many younger artists and musicians, teaching courses on the creative process and calling the Christian recording industry into deeper discipleship. Card lives in Tennessee with his wife and four children.
Rob Moll is an award-winning journalist and editor-at-large with Christianity Today. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Books Culture and Leadership. Rob serves World Vision as communications officer to the president and lives in the Seattle area. He is the author of The Art of Dying.
"If Psalm 139 were published as a contemporary book, it might look
a lot like Rob Moll's What Your Body Knows About God. Channeling
the psalmist's wonder at having been 'woven together in the depths
of the earth,' Moll, a CT editor at large, wonders at the marvel of
humanity: its dynamic blend of body, mind, soul and spirit.
Christians don't worship God, serve their neighbors and connect
with other people merely because of external rules; such impulses
are inscribed in our DNA. . . . Moll offers realistic and inspiring
examples of what it looks like to walk this path, crookedness and
all. Anyone who has struggled to pay attention in prayer can
resonate with his account of sitting against the wall in his
children's bedroom after they are tucked in bed, praying in the
quiet darkness, sometimes finding focus, other times wander. The
psalmist rejoices 'because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful' (139:14). With smart, tender and
authentic prose, What Your Body Knows About God beautifully sings
this in a 21st century key."
*Jenell Williams Paris, Christianity Today, 5-Star Review, November
2014*
"In What Your Body Knows About God, Moll leads the reader on a tour
through cutting-edge science about brains and bodies, bodies that
are not a bit less fearfully and wonderfully made even if little
about them remains, as the psalmist said, a 'secret place.' . . .
[I]t is revelatory to learn that science emphatically does not
suggest that selfishness, social isolation and godlessness define
the 'natural' human condition. Mirror neurons and mimicry that
happens below the level of consciousness—as when you slip into
imitating the speech and mannerisms of your conversation partner
without realizing it—suggest that there's something in us that
wants to connect deeply with others."
*Rachel Marie Stone, Books Culture, November/December 2014*
"Reading this book left me amazed, and the rich food for thought
fueled a desire to discuss it with others and proclaim this great
and wonderful truth: You and I are wired to know the One who
created us."
*Greg Bowman, Baptist Standard, May 25, 2015*
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