Gregory S. Clapper's When the World Breaks Your Heart: Spiritual Ways of Living PDF

By Gregory S. Clapper

ISBN-10: 1498284280

ISBN-13: 9781498284288

whilst United airways Flight 232 crashed in Sioux urban, Iowa, in 1989, 112 humans died, and 184 humans survived. during this booklet Gregory S. Clapper, either a faculty professor and a chaplain within the nationwide protect, displays on his ministry within the aftermath of this tragic occasion. Processing his chaplain stories throughout the lens of his theological education, he displays on six assorted assets from the Christian culture that he observed remodel people's lives in the course of and after this tragedy.

"This is a publication that's obvious, within the top experience of the observe. Pastorally orientated, it certainly is helping the Christian reader confront, take into consideration, and care for tragedy. It deals no effortless reasons; quite, it really is totally common, with no pretension."
--Roberta Bondi, Emory University

"Throughout this publication, [Clapper] delves into the secret of agony and the way it has the aptitude to deliver desire and therapeutic, how our loss of regulate brings a feeling of fit humility and the fantastic effect a gradual spirit has on those that require a young touch."
--Publishers Weekly

"When the realm Breaks Your Heart is worthy greater than a shelf-full of tomes at the preaching of funeral sermons, and greater than a case of Advil for neck muscle tissues that cramp as one pulls into medical institution parking lots."
--Anglican Theological Review

"When the area breaks your heart--and who's in a position to stay away from such pain--you could be inspired via the robust notice of convinced religion during this book."
--William H. Willimon, Duke University

The Reverend Dr. Gregory S. Clapper is Professor of faith and Philosophy on the collage of Indianapolis, and he additionally teaches United Methodist background and Doctrine at Christian Theological Seminary. He earned levels from Carthage collage, college of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and Emory University.

While he maintains his instructing occupation, he retired on the rank of Colonel from the Air nationwide defend after twenty-four years. in the course of his army profession he earned a number of together with the Iowa Meritorious provider Medal, the USAF Humanitarian provider Medal, USAF Meritorious provider Medals, and the Legion of Merit.

Dr. Clapper performed himself within the ABC made-for-TV motion picture in regards to the airplane crash, Crash touchdown: The Rescue of Flight 232, which starred Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, and James Coburn (later published as A Thousand Heroes). His ministry after the crash was once additionally prominently featured within the severely praised publication Flight 232: a narrative of catastrophe and Survival, via Laurence Gonzales (2014).

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