Activist Alphabet
by Donna Sinclair
Activist Alphabet is an effort to figure out why and how activists fall passionately in love with a cause, a watershed, or a planet and its people. It's a primer, or an alphabet, on how to stay strong enough to keep putting that love into action, over and over. As author Donna Sinclair explains, it is particularly aimed at people of faith, because love, we say, is what we are about, even though it makes us terribly vulnerable to grief and loss. Good and evil, we say, is what we are about, even though that calls us to study and learn and intervene, trying to protect. Trying to find hope. Trying to see where God fits and lifts in the current chaos.
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English
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Author Biography
Donna Sinclair A journalist for more than 30 years, Donna Sinclair is an award-winning writer who has travelled widely in Canada, Africa, Central America, Britain, and Eastern Europe. She is the author of The Long View, The Spirituality of Bread, The Spirituality of Gardening, A Woman's Boko of Days, A Woman's Book of Days 2, and numerous other titles. Donna lives with her husband, Jim, in North Bay, Ontario.
Review
"Touching on diverse issues from local to global, Sinclair befriends the reader with her wisdom and experience, inviting our own reflection, and our commitment to a faith consistently embodied in action." Jennifer Henry, Executive Director of KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives -- 20190801
Review Quote
"Touching on diverse issues from local to global, Sinclair befriends the reader with her wisdom and experience, inviting our own reflection, and our commitment to a faith consistently embodied in action." Jennifer Henry, Executive Director of KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives -- 20190801
Excerpt from Book
"How does it happen that a rather shy and not-terribly-brave individual finds herself getting arrested on Parliament Hill? Why does a woman who prefers to commune with pole beans all summer end up laboriously writing speeches to present at City Hall? There is no need for this. I am 74 years old, elderly. It would be more suitable for me to spend my remaining days quietly reading novels than singing protest songs. What happened?" These are the questions that sometimes plague Donna Sinclair. A widely travelled, award-winning journalist for more than 27 years, now retired, Sinclair could easily sit back and simply enjoy her garden, her grandkids, and her remaining years with her husband. Yet that is not what she has chosen to do. Sinclair, like an ever increasing number of her peers, as well as younger people the world over, has chosen the path of activism. But why?" I am not alone with these questions. Most activists, I am convinced, do not wake up one morning and say to themselves 'I think I will spend today - and perhaps the rest of my life -antagonizing large corporate bodies with untold amounts of money to spend, so that I don't get enough sleep and am constantly making anguished trade-offs about how I will spend my time.'"
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