{"product_id":"bright-shining","title":"Bright Shining","description":"'Luminous ... A work to both devour and savour, Baird has, once again, written a book the world needs now.' Guardian \nGrace is both mysterious and hard to define. It can be found, in part, when we create ways to find meaning and dignity in connection with each other, building on our shared humanity, being kinder, bigger, better with each other. If, in its crudest interpretation, karma is getting what you deserve, then grace is the opposite: forgiving the unforgivable, favouring the undeserving, loving the unlovable. \nBut we live in an era where grace is an increasingly rare currency. The silos we consume information in are dotting the media landscape like skyscrapers, and the growing distrust in media, politicians and public figures, have in some ways choked our ability to cut each other slack, to allow each other to stumble, to forgive one another.  \nSo what does grace look like in our world, and how do we recognise it, nurture it in ourselves, and express it, even in the darkest of times? \nFrom award-winning journalist Julia Baird, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Phosphorescence, comes Bright Shining, a luminously beautiful, deeply insightful and most timely exploration of grace. \n'Fascinating, wide-ranging and moving' The Age '\nThe uplift and power of Bright Shining ... is to be found in the way Baird gives grace fresh currency by bringing this beautiful and elusive condition from the theological margins into the mainstream and showing, with passion and verve, how quietly transformative it can be.' Sydney Morning Herald \n'Effervescent ... poignant. Even cynics will be moved.' Publishers Weekly \n'Enlightening, surprising, absorbing .. I learned something every chapter and put the book down full of awe at the power of human beings to be good to each other when no-one would expect it. It's the book I needed to read right now. It filled my cup.' Annabel Crabb","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45483785027618,"sku":"9781460760260","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/2871\/0178\/files\/a047bf6d904ea237a7a7983419cc0238b2c0f81fe576fd3cb4adb60ac04f9cf2.jpg?v=1779922950","url":"https:\/\/www.saltireadscaloundra.com\/products\/bright-shining","provider":"Salti Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}