Turning Toward Home: A Sojourn of Hope

This is the powerful story of one woman’s personal journey and her efforts to integrate her faith, her spirituality, and her social activism. Using the rich metaphor of “coming home” – geographically, emotionally, and spiritually – Joyce Hollyday defines a theology that embraces “Christ’s redeeming grace, the social burden of the gospel, and the promise of a new unity in the body of Christ that cuts across all lines of division” Hollyday describes her journey, from her comfortable middle class roots in Hershey, Pennsylvania, through her work at an inner-city shelter for the homeless, her encounter with one poor family’s legacy of grief, abuse, and suffering, her experiences in jail as a result of protesting against nuclear weapons, her role as a witness for peace in Nicaragua and to the suffering caused by apartheid in South Africa, and her ongoing experience as a woman in an unwelcoming society. Sensitive, aware, and principled, Joyce Hollyday reflects no her journey through places unknown to many of us and invites her readers to join her on “The Way”.–Arie Brouwer, National Council of the Churches of Christ.