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