The Power of Imperfection
Ebook
Overview
Many of us go through life feeling we are failing to be the person we could be. But as this liberating book explores, there is power to be found in imperfection.
Ruth Scott encourages us to believe that if we are able to own and work with our complexity, we will find within it great resources.
Drawing on stories from her own personal history, the experiences of people she has worked with over the years, poems, art and international news accounts, she celebrates the messiness of being human through revealing the creative potential it offers for real, risky living.
Part 1
LEAVING EDEN
1 Paradise lost 3
2 Life after Eden 10
3 Tools for the journey 15
Part 2
COMMUNITY
4 no man is an island 25
5 Community challenge 30
6 I am because we are 37
Part 3
GREED
7 What’s yours is mine! 47
8 our blinded sight 55
Part 4
COMPASSION
9 no more mr nice Guy 65
10 The cost of caring 72
Part 5
CONFLICT
11 no peace in our time 83
12 faith in conflict 89
Part 6
LOVE AND SEX
13 only fifty shades of grey? 101
14 Where is love? 108
Part 7
POWER
15 how are the mighty fallen 119
16 True power 127
Part 8
PRIVACY
17 Justice or just us? 135
18 Retributive and restorative justice 142
- Title: The Power of Imperfection
- Author: Ruth Scott
- Publisher: SPCK Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 168
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780281073085, 9780281073078, 0281073074, 0281073082
- Resource ID: LLS:9780281073085
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-09-12T10:50:08Z