Top World Guild Awards Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
What if our neighbors were our friends?
When Lynda Mac Gibbon moved from a small city in eastern Canada to a high-rise apartment in Toronto, she decided to follow Jesus' famous commandment to ‘love your neighbor’ a bit more literally. In the past, she would have looked first for friends at her new job or her new church. This time, though, she decided to look for friends among the strangers who shared her apartment building—her actual neighbors in her new ‘vertical neighborhood.’
In this charming and relatable memoir, Mac Gibbon tells the story of the community that took shape as neighbors said yes to weekly dinners and a writing group, Christmas morning brunch and even a Bible study. It's a story of the simple, everyday risk of reaching out with love to those around us, and of the beauty and messiness of real human relationships. It's a story of the risks—and rewards—of taking Jesus at his word.
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Foreword by Michael Frost
1. Fran of the Eleventh Floor
2. Chasing a Question
3. Two Are Better than One
4. A Little Bit of Crazy
5. Opening My Door
6. Unfurling Our Stories
7. Pain and Pleasure
8. Making Gnocchi
9. Hugging Yolanda
10. Brunch with Jesus
11. Feasting with Babette
12. Joy and Sorrow
13. Love and Loneliness
14. Lost and Found
15. Beyond Acquaintances
16. Finding Forgiveness
17. Earnestly Asking
18. Dancing with Brian
19. Come for Dinner
Acknowledgments
Notes
Over de auteur
Michael Frost is the founding director of the Tinsley Institute, a mission study center at Morling College in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of more than a dozen books.
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