In Holiness in a Restless World, Joshua R. Sweeden and Nell M. Becker Sweeden explore the ways that Christians can pursue a holy life that is grounded in restfulness.
The Bible is filled with stories of wandering, restlessness, dispersion, and coming home—stories in which the people of God are looking for a place to belong in God’s world even as they are also invited to welcome others into God’s household. These themes are familiar to Christians today because some of us feel like prodigals and wanderers, not quite at home in the place where we find ourselves, yet called to create home for the outsiders around us. In Holiness in a Restless World, Joshua R. Sweeden and Nell M. Becker Sweeden explore the ways that Christians can pursue a holy life that is grounded in restfulness. When rest is absent from our lives, we can become unsettled and develop shortsighted notions about the nature of a holy life, but the Sweedens present holy rest as the bedrock for faithful Christian engagement with the world.
Joshua R Sweeden is professor of church and society and former dean of the faculty at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City. He is author of The Church and Work: The Ecclesiological Grounding of Good Work. An ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene, Sweeden obtained his PhD in practical theology from Boston University and previously served as assistant professor of theology at Portland Seminary (George Fox University).
Nell M Becker Sweeden
Nell M Becker Sweeden is the international director as well as CEO of NCM, Inc. Becker Sweeden holds a PhD in practical theology from Boston University and is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. She is the author of Church on the Way: Hospitality and Migration, and also serves as affiliate professor of contemporary theology at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City.
