my first book

'This Common Life' is under contract with Eerdmans Publishing Company!

I launched This Common Life here on Substack over a year ago with the hope of cultivating digital communities where honest, critical, and deep conversations around the common good, neighbor love, and faith formation could take place.

Thanks to you all, I am incredibly honored and excited to share that This Common Life: Seeking the Common Good through Love of Neighbor is officially under contract with Eerdmans Publishing Company!

The book, like much of this newsletter, brings together the Christian practice of neighbor love and a theologically rich imagination of the common good to cast a constructive vision of life together that cuts across divisions. This text is not a diagnosis of toxic polarization, violence, oppression, and marginalization (many have already done this important work), but a prescription—a proposal for how we might move forward in redemptive, Christ-like love by focusing on our common life.

The book is aimed at pastors, lay leaders, community organizers, and churchgoers as we collectively look to Scripture and the teachings of the church to make a compelling case for a distinct and constructive understanding of both the “common” and the “good” that can generate communities marked by love, belonging, justice, and mutual flourishing.

What does this mean for this Substack community?

This newsletter will continue on as it always has—with a regular Tuesday post available to all subscribers. Paywalled posts will resume every Thursday with paid-exclusive updates on the book project, my writing process, stories behind the book, and more.

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