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Rumours of a Better Country

Searching for trust and community in a time of moral outrage

Rumours of a Better Country

Searching for trust and community in a time of moral outrage

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Hardback

£19.99

Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN: 9781789744675
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 19/10/2023
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
In an age of hyper-individualism and relentless consumerism, our longing for meaning and belonging remains unmet. Real community feels increasingly out of reach, and the culture wars - marked by outrage and polarization - have left us morally adrift. Is it still possible to rediscover a shared vision of goodness capable of uniting us? Rumours of a Better Country explores this search for justice, trust, and moral renewal. With insight and hope, Marsh Moyle invites readers to awaken their moral imagination and consider how trust - and the courage to be trustworthy - can form the foundation for genuine freedom and human flourishing. Through the lens of the fictional Cafe Now and Not Yet, readers encounter Palestinians in a Czechoslovakian pub, a Romanian sculpture, and post-communist Ukrainians imagining a better life - vivid glimpses that illuminate why goodness still matters.
Advice to the Reader Prologue Chapter 1. An Invitation to the Cafe Now and Not Yet Chapter 2. My search for a Better Country Chapter 3. Out of the Land of Slavery - The Way of Freedom Chapter 4. Word One - An Invitation Coffee Break - Transitions Chapter 5. Word Two - What do you see? - Image and Imagination Chapter 6. Word Three - What is your Name? Coffee Break - Reality Chapter 7. Word Four - What Disturbs You - Finding Sabbath Chapter 8. Word Five - A Reckoning with History Coffee Break: Power Chapter 9. Word Six - Life or Death Coffee Break - Burnout Chapter 10. Word Seven - The Possibilities and Problems of Love Chapter 11. Word Eight - Property and Generosity Chapter 12. Word Nine - Reality or Illusion Chapter 13. Word Ten - Envy - Dominion or Domination Chapter 14. Written on the Heart: The Way of Love For further reading Acknowledgments End Notes

Marsh Moyle

During the Cold War, Marsh Moyle and his wife Tuula organised book translation and distribution behind the Iron Curtain. In the post-communist period, they helped people setting up publishing houses across the region, ran a learning community and engaged in research on social issues caused by the changes. His work both under communism and in the adjustment to democracy and free markets gives him a unique perspective from which to engage with the cultural challenges of today. Marsh now travels and teaches across Europe and works alongside L’Abri, a study centre in southern England.