Press Release
Pastor and Christianity Today Award-Winning Author Rich Villodas Offers Spiritually Formative Guide to Help Christians Receive and Walk in Authentic Healing and Wholeness in the Midst of a Fractured World We carry the stress of our fractured world in our bodies and relationships. Families that once gathered around tables have converted those tables into walls. Hostility, rage, and offense is the language of our fractured culture and world.
How did we lose the goodness, kindness, and beauty that we long for? And more importantly, how do we get them back into our lives? These are the two questions crying out in our streets, homes, churches, and from deep within our souls.
Nationally respected pastor and
Christianity Today award-winning author Rich Villodas is convinced that only Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we experience daily.
Now, in
Good and Beautiful and Kind: Becoming Whole in a Fractured World (WaterBrook, on sale 7/12/22), Villodas offers an invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience.
With profound insight and clarity, Villodas helps readers understand how:
• These three essentials are stolen by sin, “powers and principalities,” and trauma.
• Every believer can get these essentials back into their lives through contemplative prayer, humility, and the cultivation of calm presence.
• The traits of healthy conflict, forgiveness, and justice lead to wholeness, healing, and a new collective future—when honest and rooted in the ancient way of Jesus.
Filled with fresh energy, classic truth, and practical solutions,
Good and Beautiful and Kind is a road map for stepping beyond distraction and division to love like Jesus.
For more information, visit RichVillodas.com and WaterBrookMultnomah.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rich Villodas is author of
Good and Beautiful and Kind (WaterBrook, on sale 7/12/22) and the
Christianity Today award-winning
The Deeply Formed Life. He’s the Brooklyn-born lead pastor of New Life Fellowship, a large, multiracial church with more than 75 countries represented in Elmhurst, Queens. He enjoys reading widely, and preaching and writing on contemplative spirituality, justice-related issues, and the art of preaching. Rich has written articles for RelevantMagazine.com, Patheos and Missio Alliance and has been featured in media outlets including
Good Morning America,
Made for This with Jennie Allen and
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast. He's been married to Rosie since 2006 and they have two beautiful children, Karis and Nathan.
Visit him online at:
www.richvillodas.com
https://instagram.com/richvillodas
https://www.facebook.com/rvillodas
https://twitter.com/richvillodas
Praise for Good and Beautiful and Kind“A stunning book with power to reshape our world . . . if we let it.”
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Glenn Packiam, pastor at New Life Church and author of
Blessed Broken Given “This book is a gift to us all! Rich not only identifies the fractures in our world and wounds in our souls, but he also provides a pathway to wholeness. In a broken and disillusioned world, these pages are full of hope and healing. You will discover that the ancient way of Jesus is actually the path to the future.”
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Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women
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Good and Beautiful and Kind is a peaceful, gracious, and wise formulation of what it looks like to follow Jesus in a world ripping apart by a lack of love, by systemic powers, and by our own woundedness. Give yourself a retreat to spend time with this beautiful book.”
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Rev. Canon Dr. Scot McKnight, professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary
“We desperately need resources to heal the brokenness, deception, and deformation that has crept into the church. In this beautiful book, Rich Villodas lays out a vision, theology, framework, and life-giving practices to help us restore our integrity . . .”
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Jon Tyson, author of
Beautiful Resistance and pastor of Church of the City New York
“It’s not a secret that we are living in difficult and fractured times. Such times can be reasons for not just helplessness but more dangerously, hopelessness. Thankfully, there are servant leaders like Pastor Rich Villodas who don’t pretend to have all the answers and yet are not afraid to invite us to walk ‘a better way.’”
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Rev. Eugene Cho, president and CEO of Bread for the World, and author of
Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
“In
Good and Beautiful and Kind, Rich charts, with masterful insight and pastoral clarity, both the root causes of the disease of our time and the spiritual antidotes that can lead to wholeness. For those of us praying, longing, and waiting for wholeness, this is an answered prayer.”
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Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero, pastor of the Gathering Place and president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition
“This book is for all those who need a reminder that even when times seem dim, there is a path that leads to brightness and abundant life.”
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Jemar Tisby, PhD, author of
The Color of Compromise and
How to Fight Racism
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