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Title: Keeping Place
Subtitle: Reflections on the Meaning of Home
Author: Jen Pollock Michel
Narrator: Jen Pollock Michel
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-02-17
Publisher: christianaudio.com
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
To be human is to long for home. Home is our most fundamental human longing. And for many of us homesickness is a nagging place of grief. This book connects that desire and disappointment with the story of the Bible, helping us to see that there is a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome - and a church commissioned with this same work. "Many of us seem to be recovering the sacred, if ordinary, beauty of place," writes author Jen Pollock Michel. "Perhaps we're reading along with Wendell Berry, falling in love with Berry's small-town barber and Jayber Crow's small-town life...Or maybe we're simply reading our Bibles better, discovering that while we might wish to flatten Scripture to serve our didactic purposes, it rises up in flesh and sinew, muscle and bone: God's holy story is written in the lives of people and their places."
Including a five-session discussion guide, Keeping Place offers hope to the wanderer, help to the stranded, and a new vision of what it means to live today with our longings for eternal home.
Members Reviews:
A great companion to anyone moving
This book will deepen your meaning of home. A great companion to anyone moving, settling into homemaking, or finding their home in this life lacking. It will offer hope, joy and a new look at our God, who is the ultimate homemaker, not only for us now but in what he is preparing for us. Written with heart and intellect, Jen Pollock Michel knows how to look deep but keep it real.
Theologically Rich and Beautiful
If I left right now, I could make it to any of the six places that Iâve called home in less than half an hour. Two of those places â my childhood home, and the bungalow where we started out as newlywed kids and left as middle-aged parents â are in my bones. I know those places. Theyâve shaped me in ways I barely understand.
In her new book Keeping Place, Jen Pollock Michel helps me understand why. Weâre all homesick. âHome represents humanityâs most visceral ache â and our oldest desire.â Since Eden, weâve never really been home. But our places still shape us. We serve a homemaking God, and the church is called to follow his example.
A BOOK FOR MEN AND WOMEN
Some men might bristle at the thought of reading a book on home. Jen recently had coffee with a young woman who said she looked forward to her book on âhomemaking.â âI wondered later if she imagined a book of recipes, table setting ideas, and the best way to organize a linen closet,â Jen notes.
This isnât a book about housekeeping, at least in that sense. Itâs a book about our longings for home, as well as the role that God has given us in this world. It helps us understand the story of Scripture through the lens of place and home.
I wouldnât have thought I would be interested in reading a book on home, but Iâm glad I did. It helped me understand my own longings for home. It deepened my understanding of the theology of home, and helped me understand Godâs care for our places, as well as the churchâs role to be housekeepers in the world.
THEOLOGICALLY RICH
Jen has a keen theological eye. One of the reasons I appreciated this book is because itâs so theologically rich. My copy is dogeared and marked, and I plan to go through again and index some of the insights I gleaned.
