ECPA 2020 Christian Book Award Finalist - Faith and Culture Christianity Today 2020 Book of the Year Award, Politics and Public Life Common life in our society is in decline.
Only through that vision--and that citizenship--can we truly work together for the Common good..
In Search of the Common Good reclaims a vision of Common life for our Fractured times: a vision that doesn\'t depend on the destinies of our economies or our political institutions, but on our citizenship in a heavenly city.
There are reasons for hope--reasons grounded in a different, better story.
Our story doesn\'t have to end in loneliness and despair.
He shows us how that story has led to our collective loss of meaning, wonder, and good work, and then recovers each of these by grounding them in a different story--a story rooted in the deep tradition of the Christian faith.
In this book, Jake Meador diagnoses our society\'s decline as the failure of a particular story we\'ve told about ourselves: the story of modern liberalism.
Economic inequalities are widening.
Ethnic minorities face systemic injustices and the ever-present fear of violence and deportation.
Our public discourse is polarized and hateful.
Our communities are disintegrating, as the loss of meaningful work and the breakdown of the family leave us anxious and alone--indeed, half of all Americans report daily feelings of loneliness.
ECPA 2020 Christian Book Award Finalist - Faith and Culture Christianity Today 2020 Book of the Year Award, Politics and Public Life Common life in our society is in decline
