Wilderness & Wonder: A Lenten Guide to Dismantling and Reimagining - Ebook

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Wilderness & Wonder: A Lenten Guide to Dismantling and Reimagining is a survival guide for the spiritually displaced, weaving together the honest work of dismantling empire with the radical, creative power of reimagining faith.

Across Ash Wednesday to Easter, you’ll move through daily readings shaped by these movements:

• The Foundation: scripture as wisdom, wound, and mirror
• The Wilderness: telling the truth, letting certainty collapse, learning to be held
• The Reimagining: asking “What if?”—and refusing to rebuild the same old wall
• Blessing: A benediction to carry with you into your day

This guide names what broke us—the Empire of Force (performance, ledgers, control)—and invites us into another way: the Power of Wonder, where dust is not shame but raw material for new creation.

Includes:

• 40+ daily readings (plus Sundays), blessings, and embodied practices
• Five weekly arcs (stepping away, dismantling systems, reimagining the kingdom, love’s friction, the weight of the world)
• Sunday narratives that place you inside the scripture story through the eyes of someone who was there—an invitation to connect with the human beings in the text.
• A Holy Week approach that refuses to sanctify violence and stays close to the wounded
• “Companions on the way” for readers who want to go deeper (Levine, Sölle, Brueggemann, bell hooks, and more)

Not for everyone: If you want a Lent that tastes like honey, this book isn’t for you. It’s for people brave enough to look for wonder in the wild.