‘Theology is a location and a story. Theology is the place and story you imagine of when you consider about the meaning you will ever have, of the globe, and the chance of God.’

So begins Serene Jones’s epic function of raw truth, fierce like, and religious teaching mainly because muscular as the fractured spirit of this hundred years needs. From her abiding Oklahoma origins to her historic management of the legendary NY seminary, her tale illuminates the deep mistake lines of the age–and points beyond them. With about Call It Grace: Finding Indicating inside a Fractured Globe a voice that is simultaneously frank and poetic, humble and prophetic, personal and useful, Jones makes complicated teachings around hatred, forgiveness, mercy, justice, loss of life, sin, and grace understandable and instantly applicable for modern people. Excavating the wisdom of great theological voices–Soren Kierkegaard, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Calvin, Wayne Baldwin, Wayne Cone, Luce Irigaray, Saint Teresa of Avila–she brings them to life with an intimacy and vividness that illumines our lives and our lifestyle now. At exactly the same time, and with great beauty, Call It Sophistication reveals Serene Jones like a towering tone of voice of a new, and urgently required, public theology because of this century.