Living in the Company of Jesus: A Practical, Scripture-Based Guide to Deepening Your Journey within His Nonviolent Kingdom
Ebook
At this critical time of despair, divisiveness, systemic oppression, wealth disparity and poverty, global pandemic, climate crisis, and looming nuclear annihilation, readers searching for Jesus amidst these crises will (re)discover a loving, welcoming, compassionate, nonviolent God who wants us and our world healed. This book helps discern and employ those healing actions. Firmly rooted in the Ignatian spiritual practices of imaginative immersion into Jesus, Philip applies his professional teaching and learning perspectives to his late Jesuit brother's profound and inspiring scriptural meditations to provide a variety of effective, practical ways to develop a deeper, more engaging, and unifying discipleship.
Readers are urged to consider the kingdom as Jesus reveals it, and to heed Pope Francis' revolutionary call to "make active nonviolence our way of life." Clergy and lay people will more deeply appreciate the essential ways in which Jesus' words and actions counter our kingdoms' ubiquitous employment of divisiveness, hatred, vengeance, and violence. Our book helps people act with greater certainty in creatively applying effective solutions to today's pressing problems, based upon Jesus' modeling of loving care and service to all people and creation.
“Simon Harak’s passion for companionship with Jesus infused his constant search for nonviolent ways to resist war and cruelty. Simon opened doors for his friends, students, and loved ones to deepen their relationship to Jesus and the Gospels. Philip, his brother, readily joined the journey. Their meditations reveal the beautiful life of a man who was uproariously funny, constantly kind, and lovingly courageous. Living in the Company of Jesus invites readers to follow Simon’s lead.”
—Kathy Kelly, president, World BEYOND War
“Living in the Company of Jesus is already creating the me I pray to be here now and forever. For thirty years I’d already learned much from my friends Simon and Phil Harak. In print, their wisdom leaps off the page. I dwell in it. Martin Luther King Jr. taught me long ago that gospel nonviolence is a ‘way of life.’ Their book helps me live it.”
—Jane Morrissey, co-author of Gracias, Matiox, Thanks, Hermano Pedro: A Trilingual Anthology of Guatemalan Oral Tradition
“A powerful and compelling exploration of the Gospels through the lens of nonviolence—the mystery of love confronting the mystery of evil—engaging the imagination, intellect, and heart. Written with clarity, passion, and a sense of urgency, it challenges both those deeply grounded and those new to the story of Jesus in the New Testament Scriptures to see with new eyes their encounter and relationship with themselves, others, creation, and the sacred.”
—Thomas David McMurray, SJ, chaplain and director of Mission and Identity, Nativity School of Worcester
“A profound gift of luminous insight, Living in the Company of Jesus draws us into a rich study of Jesus’ nonviolent love and liberation and its application to our everyday lives. Combining their shared scholarly expertise, spiritual insights, and deeply-rooted commitment to social justice, the Harak brothers help us see that Jesus, his life experiences, and Christian discipleship are not simply concepts beyond our reach, but are truly present and possible here and now.”
—Carol M. Lukens, Educator and Nonviolence Advocate
- Title: Living in the Company of Jesus: A Practical, Scripture-Based Guide to Deepening Your Journey within His Nonviolent Kingdom
- Authors: G. Simon Harak, Philip J. Harak, Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666797510, 9781666797503, 1666797502, 9781666737738, 1666737739, 1666797510
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666797510
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-05-25T21:55:58Z
Philip J. Harak is a retired public high school English teacher, and sole proprietor of Socially Just Community Development, LLC. He holds a doctorate in Social Justice Education, consults with teachers and their students in constructing democratic and entirely inclusive learning environments. He has written over thirty high school courses, including peace and social justice studies. Committed to Christ’s nonviolence, he serves on the Massachusetts Pax Christi Board. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Margaret.
G. Simon Harak, SJ, exuberantly loved and served Jesus. A committed Christian pacifist, he was a university professor, theologian, Classics scholar, Christian ethicist, author, peace activist, spiritual director, and pastoral priest. He resigned his full professorship to work as Disarmament Director for the War Resister’s League. He co-founded the Marquette University Center for Peacemaking. A diligent researcher and gifted orator, he gave two thousand lectures nationally and internationally against wars in person and over media.