How to begin when your world is ending : a spiritual field guide to joy despite everything

How to begin when your world is ending A spiritual field guide to joy despite everything

Molly Phinney Baskette, 1970-

Book - 2022

"Molly Baskette bears witness to the most vulnerable, aching, confusing, and frail moments in people's lives. She has served as a pastor to people convicted of heinous crimes, those living with treatment-resistant depression and PTSD, people suffering from unremitting eating disorders, domestic and sexual abuse survivors, those experiencing pregnancy loss or divorce, people fleeing violence in another country, and those coming out as queer to fundamentalist parents or discerning their true gender. But when she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer at age thirty-nine, Baskette's understanding of God changed"--Publisher's description.

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Subjects
Suffering > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Grief > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Post-traumatic stress disorder > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Loss (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Patients > Religious life.
Christian life.
Published
Minneapolis, MN : Broadleaf Books [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Molly Phinney Baskette, 1970- (author)
Physical Description
215 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN
9781506481609
  • Prologue: There Are Very Few Emergencies
  • Chapter 1. God Didn't Send the Disaster (But She Will Use It)
  • Chapter 2. How to Mystical
  • Chapter 3. The Superpower of Vulnerability
  • Chapter 4. The Body and the Blood
  • Chapter 5. Out of the Mouths of Babes
  • Chapter 6. The Holy Spirit Portal
  • Chapter 7. Many Are Strong at the Broken Places
  • Chapter 8. The Sin of Certainty
  • Chapter 9. Life Is Love School
  • Chapter 10. God Doesn't Have a Plan, but God Has a: Dream
  • Chapter 11. Random Tuesday Death Wish
  • Chapter 12. Losers for Jesus
  • Chapter 13. On Not Making Every Moment Count
  • Chapter 14. How to Come Back from the Dead
  • Chapter 15. Church on Fire
  • Chapter 16. Dance When You're Broken Open
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Pastor Baskette (Bless This Mess) delivers a sincere and funny guide to surviving hardships. She weaves stories of people she's met through her ministry with anecdotes about her treatment and recovery from cancer, recounting her struggle to care for her two young children and pastor her church after getting diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma at age 39. Touting the power of vulnerability, she tells of learning to trust that the "community that God and I had woven together over many decades would hold" while she underwent treatment and displays a spirited sense of humor about the ordeal ("I felt like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2," she writes about her grizzled look while undergoing chemotherapy). Baskette excels at drawing life-affirming lessons from bleak circumstances, as when she discusses the suicide of a parishioner: "Facing death is what ultimately frees us to live more wholly." Her accounts of ministering to people in prison--including a pedophile and a mother who killed one of her children during a psychotic episode--balance grace and mercy with nuanced moral understanding, and she suggests that an ideal faith community should be able to address dangerous urges before they become crimes. Anne Lamott fans will find in Baskette a kindred spirit. (Nov.)

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