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Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World
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by Jonathan Reckford, Jimmy Carter (Foreword by)Jonathan Reckford
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Inspiring and insightful, Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World celebrates the shared principles that unite and enable us to overcome life’s challenges together.
“When the waters rise, so do our better angels.”President Jimmy Carter
Jonathan Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity, has seen time and again the powerful benefits that arise when people from all walks of life work together to help one another. In this uplifting book, he shares true stories of people involved with Habitat as volunteers and future homeowners who embody seven timeless virtueskindness, community, empowerment, joy, respect, generosity, and serviceand shows how we can all practice these to improve the quality of our own lives as well as those around us.
A Vietnam veteran finds peace where he was once engaged in war. An impoverished single mother offers her family’s time and energy to enrich their neighbors’ lives. A Zambian family of nine living in a makeshift tent makes room to shelter even more. A teenager grieving for his mother honors her love and memory by ensuring other people have a place to call home. A former president of the United States leads by example with a determined work ethic that motivates everyone around him to be the best version of themselves.
These stories, and many others, illustrate how virtues become values, how cooperation becomes connection, and how even the smallest act of compassion can encourage actions that transform the world around us. Here are tales that will make readers laugh and cry and embrace with passion the calling of our better angels to change the way we take care of ourselves, our families, our communities, and the world.
“When the waters rise, so do our better angels.”President Jimmy Carter
Jonathan Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity, has seen time and again the powerful benefits that arise when people from all walks of life work together to help one another. In this uplifting book, he shares true stories of people involved with Habitat as volunteers and future homeowners who embody seven timeless virtueskindness, community, empowerment, joy, respect, generosity, and serviceand shows how we can all practice these to improve the quality of our own lives as well as those around us.
A Vietnam veteran finds peace where he was once engaged in war. An impoverished single mother offers her family’s time and energy to enrich their neighbors’ lives. A Zambian family of nine living in a makeshift tent makes room to shelter even more. A teenager grieving for his mother honors her love and memory by ensuring other people have a place to call home. A former president of the United States leads by example with a determined work ethic that motivates everyone around him to be the best version of themselves.
These stories, and many others, illustrate how virtues become values, how cooperation becomes connection, and how even the smallest act of compassion can encourage actions that transform the world around us. Here are tales that will make readers laugh and cry and embrace with passion the calling of our better angels to change the way we take care of ourselves, our families, our communities, and the world.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781250237798 |
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Publisher: | St. Martin's Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 10/08/2019 |
Pages: | 240 |
Sales rank: | 140,806 |
Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
JONATHAN RECKFORD has served as chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity International since 2005. Under his leadership, the global housing organization has grown from serving 125,000 individuals per year to more than 8.7 million people in 2018 alone. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Reckford earned his MBA from Stanford and went on to hold managerial positions at a variety of Fortune 500 companies. Reckford also served as executive pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina, Minnesota.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY partners with people in your community, and all over the world, to help them build or improve a place they can call home.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY partners with people in your community, and all over the world, to help them build or improve a place they can call home.
Table of Contents
Foreword Jimmy Carter ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Kindness 13
Chapter 2 Community 41
Chapter 3 Empowerment 65
Chapter 4 Joy 99
Chapter 5 Respect 125
Chapter 6 Generosity 167
Chapter 7 Service 195
Acknowledgments 217
Resource Guide 221
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