__Discover Faith-Forming Practices for Everyday Radicals__   
The Year of Small Things explores the yearlong experiment of two young families to implement twelve small practices of radical faith--things like simplicity, sustainability, and hospitality to the poor--not waiting until they were out of debt or the kids were out of diapers or God sent them elsewhere, but right now. The authors invite you to think about embarking on your own year of small but radical changes, right where you are.  
  
"This is the best kind of spiritual formation book: serious and funny, smart and vulnerable--and, most useful of all, practical. Honestly, this is one of my favorite books this year."  
--__Jen Pollock Michel__, speaker and author of Teach Us to Want  
  
"Deeply moving--and necessary--for the faith community."  
--__Joel Salatin__, renegade farmer and author of The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs: Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation  
  
"This beautiful book offers a minirevolution that could shake up the world, or at least your neighborhood--and it doesn't require growing kale or living in a hut."  
--__Leslie Leyland Fields__, author of Crossing the Waters: Following Jesus through the Storms, the Fish, the Doubt, and the Seas  
  
"A field guide on how to implement Mother Teresa's admonition to 'do small things with great love.'"  
--__Tim Otto__, copastor of Church of the Sojourners, San Francisco; author of Oriented to Faith; coauthor of Inhabiting the Church: Biblical Wisdom for a New Monasticism  
  
"This beautifully written book is a gem!"  
--__Elaine Heath__, dean of Duke Divinity School; author of God Unbound: Wisdom from Galatians for the Anxious Church  
  
"Written with grace, authenticity, and wit, Arthur and Wasinger's book made me excited to follow their path--the mark of a truly great work."  
--__Nathan Foster__, director of community life, Renovaré; author of The Making of an Ordinary Saint  
  
"Sarah and Erin get it. If you want to practice your faith right where you are, these women are the reliable guides you need."  
--__Margot Starbuck__, author of Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor __For more information, visit www.yearofsmallthings.com__.

__Sarah Arthur__ (MTS, Duke Divinity School) is a fun-loving speaker and the award-winning author or compiler of eleven books, including the best-selling Walking with Frodo: A Devotional Journey through "The Lord of the Rings" and At the Still Point: A Literary Guide to Prayer in Ordinary Time. She has written for such publications as Christianity Today, Her.meneutics, and Image Journal online, and has served as a fiction judge for the Christianity Today Book Awards. She lives in Lansing, Michigan. Visit her website at www.saraharthur.com.   
  
__Erin F. Wasinger__ is a freelance writer, speaker, and journalist, having worked as a newspaper editor and columnist before moving to Lansing, Michigan. A voracious reader as well as a storyteller and lay theologian, she writes at www.erinwasinger.com.

When Sarah and Tom Arthur were appointed to a suburban church after three years in an urban Christian community, they faced a unique challenge: how to translate the practices of "radical" faith into their new context. Together with their friends and fellow church members Erin and Dave Wasinger, the Arthurs embarked on a yearlong experiment to implement twelve small practices of radical faith--not waiting until they were out of debt or the kids were out of diapers or God sent them elsewhere, but right now.  
  
This book is Sarah and Erin's story, told with humor, theological reflection, and practical insight, exploring such practices as simplicity, hospitality, accountability, sustainability, and social justice--but, most of all, discernment. Along the way readers will consider how God might be calling them to embark on their own year of small but radical changes, right where God has planted them. Each chapter includes discussion questions and suggested readings. Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.  
  
For more information, visit \[www.YearofSmallThings.com\](https://www.YearofSmallThings.com).

Using humor, narrative, and theological reflection, this inviting book explores the yearlong experiment of two young families to implement twelve small practices of radical faith--not waiting until they were out of debt or the kids were out of diapers or God sent them elsewhere, but right now.

__Contents__ Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove  
Introduction: The Street View  
1. Covenantal Friendship  
2. Hospitality beyond Martha Stewart  
3. Radical Finances  
4. Reclaiming Spiritual Habits  
5. Stuff  
6. Holy Time  
7. Vows  
8. Planted in the Church  
9. Kid Monasticism  
10. Sustaining Creation  
11. Unselfish Self-Care  
12. Just Living  
Closing Thoughts  
Appendix A: Engaging Three Strands of Radical Christianity  
Appendix B: Hospitality Covenant  
Appendix C: The Arthurs' Christmas Letter

Arthur, Sarah ;Wasinger, Erin F.

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Endorsements

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

1. Covenantal Friendship

2. Hospitality Beyond Martha Stewart

3. Radical Finances

4. Reclaiming Spiritual Habits

5. Stuff

6. Holy Time

7. Vows

8. Planted in the Church

9. Kid Monasticism

10. Sustaining Creation

11. unselfish self-care

12. Just Living

Closing Thoughts

Appendix A: Engaging Three Strands of Radical Christianity

Appendix B: Hospitality Covenant

Appendix C: The Arthurs’ Christmas Letter

Notes

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Contents  
Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove  
Introduction: The Street View  
1\. Covenantal Friendship  
2\. Hospitality beyond Martha Stewart  
3\. Radical Finances  
4\. Reclaiming Spiritual Habits  
5\. Stuff  
6\. Holy Time  
7\. Vows  
8\. Planted in the Church  
9\. Kid Monasticism  
10\. Sustaining Creation  
11\. Unselfish Self-Care  
12\. Just Living  
Closing Thoughts  
Appendix A: Engaging Three Strands of Radical Christianity  
Appendix B: Hospitality Covenant  
Appendix C: The Arthurs' Christmas Letter

A true story of growing a church in an urban setting, The Year of Small Things is a wry and wise account of following God's calling.

The Year of Small Things

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