Waiting for God, Justice, and Rush-Hour Traffic
The Creative Activity of Patience
- Christian Living
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
Patience is an indispensable Christian virtue but is often neglected. Often it is thought to be passive inactivity, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Christian patience is creatively active. It has been so in the church's mission, in God's response to fallen humanity, in the cross-shaped life of those who are waiting for justice, and even in the believer's experience of God's silence. Okholm delves into these facets of patience, illustrating them with the experiences of those who have practiced the creative activity of patience and concluding with strategies to cultivate the virtue in our lives.
Endorsements (2)
“Dennis Okholm’s Waiting for God, Justice, and Rush-Hour Traffic is made special by Dennis’s ability to describe little bits of history, theology, biblical insight, and modern thinking and then to form these insights into a mosaic that shines and pops with wisdom. This wisdom has a grace that invites us all to cultivate habits of patience for the healing of our world.”
“Okholm, as usual, has written a book rich with spiritual nourishment. Patience—understood either as dwelling easily in the present or else as the ability to absorb irritants without being paralyzed by them—is presented in this volume with great brio.”
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