Professor Jonathan Sacks has been Chief Rabbi of Britain and the Commonwealth since 1991
Foreword
ix
Ruth Gledhill
Acknowledgements
xiii
Staying sane in troubled times
1
(6)
Part I -- Making a Blessing over Life
Not taking life for granted
7
(3)
Live long, live well
10
(4)
Giving thanks
14
(3)
Saved by a grape
17
(3)
What makes the good news, news
20
(3)
Letting the blessings catch up
23
(6)
Part II -- Affirmations in Unexpected Places
The good news file
29
(3)
Failure
32
(3)
God's script
35
(2)
Humour and humanity
37
(3)
Time out
40
(2)
The fly and the fly-bottle
42
(5)
Part III -- Where Happiness Lives
Having it all
47
(3)
A lesson in happiness
50
(3)
The third domain
53
(3)
Faith lost
56
(3)
Faith found
59
(3)
The art of happiness
62
(5)
Part IV -- Finding God
The face of the personal
67
(3)
The mirror of God
70
(3)
The voice of silence
73
(3)
Listening
76
(3)
A question of faith
79
(3)
Where we let Him in
82
(5)
Part V -- Faith in the Family
Faith is a marriage
87
(3)
Love in a loveless world
90
(3)
Fractured families
93
(3)
C
96
(3)
Learning to love
99
(3)
Being a parent
102
(3)
What we give our children
105
(4)
Part VI -- The Moral Voice
Our creation
109
(3)
The moral maze
112
(3)
Values we share
115
(4)
Can we make moral judgements?
119
(3)
The hardest word to hear
122
(2)
Civility
124
(2)
Confidences
126
(3)
Rights and duties
129
(6)
Part VII -- Communities of Faith
Community
135
(3)
Trust and the Prisoner's Dilemma
138
(3)
Bowling alone
141
(3)
Turning strangers into friends
144
(3)
Where they know my name
147
(6)
Part VIII -- Faith and Friendship
The dignity of difference
153
(3)
A new way
156
(3)
Who best values others?
159
(2)
When we cannot worship together
161
(2)
Remembering Sir Isaiah
163
(2)
Cardinal Hume
165
(6)
Part IX -- From Optimism to Hope
Losing our way
171
(3)
Sifting hope from ashes
174
(3)
Telling the time
177
(4)
When civilizations grow old
181
(3)
Surviving change
184
(3)
The Tabernacle
187
(3)
Faith: the undiscovered country
190
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