{"product_id":"an-other-kingdom","title":"An Other Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe consumer culture holds the belief that no amount is enough. The free market ideology produces economic crises, violence, and an exhausted planet.\u003ci\u003e An Other Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new narrative, a shift in our thinking and speaking, to take us out of a culture of addictive consumption into a place where contract is replaced by covenant, consumption is replaced by neighborliness, and time is reclaimed as our own. This is a modern exodus towards a connected community, built on an alternative set of beliefs, liturgy, and disciplines. The shift has begun and out of it we find a better way to raise our children, be healthy, be safe, and be kinder to the earth.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fast-paced, hard-hitting smack of a book . . . [with] specific, practical ways we can move toward greater neighborliness for the common good.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—WILL WILLIMON,\u003c\/b\u003e Professor of Christian Ministry, Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC and United Methodist Bishop (ret.) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book is not sentimental . . . but rather hopeful of fundamental economic, social, and cultural transformation, reminiscent of economist Fritz Schumacher.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—SUSAN WITT,\u003c\/b\u003e Schumacher Center for a New Economics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An alternative vision of a neighborly society, one that draws upon our deepest sacred and secular traditions and is already being constructed by ordinary people in many local communities.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—WALTER T. DAVIS,\u003c\/b\u003e Professor Emeritus, San Francisco Seminary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Original and illuminating. Prophetic and liberating!\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—ROBERT INCHAUSTI,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eThomas Merton's American Prophecy, Subversive Orthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shines like the North Star in the night sky: a joy to read, and a compass to hold close as we face the unknown and unknowable environmental, political, relational, and spiritual challenges that lie out ahead.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—CORMAC RUSSELL,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eAsset-Based Community Development\u003c\/i\u003e; Managing Director of Nurture Development; faculty member of ABCD Institute, and lead steward for ABCD in Europe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John McKnight","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42856569569341,"sku":"9781119194729","price":25.16,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781119194729_4820e82e-c87d-4269-b7dd-c8644325a508.jpg?v=1766991537","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/an-other-kingdom","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}