The Heartbeat of God: Finding the Sacred in the Middle of Everything Book

This 210 paged book, subtitled 'Finding the Sacred in the Middle of Everything', is packed with real practical and political relevance, especially for the Episcopalian church and the people of the USA. I have to admit a little disappointment however as I'd hoped it would be more like the theological tour de force delivered to an audience at St.Paul's Cathedral the other month. At risk of over simplifying, this is less about the nature of God and more about what humanity's practical response to God's love can be. Countless examples of mission work in the States and within the Episcopal church are furnished and the short chapters work like mini-sermons sending us out to go and get stuck in and live the Gospel. To a Brit, her frequent allusion to political battles such as health care reform just seem a bit sad as we just don't get the opposition to health care equality that is so rabid in parts of US society. Seems like she did her bit to shake up her church in her time as Primate and one hopes reforms will progress. Since she wrote this book the Church of England finally got around to appointing female bishops so there's room for progression on this side of the pond. It's seems that an up to date cogent theological articulation of an ultra-liberal anglicanism of the kind she shared clearly with her British audience at St.Paul's has yet to be written.