Rabbi Sharon Brous’s upcoming book, The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World, published by Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, makes the case that in an era of loneliness, social alienation and ideological extremism, our deepest spiritual work is finding our way to one other—in celebration, sorrow, and solidarity. Relationships of care and curiosity, she argues, are essential to both personal healing and social change. This is how we reawaken our humanity.
The Amen Effect is at once soulful, tender, heartbreaking, and hopeful. It reads like a compelling narrative, a captivating sermon and a deeply intimate memoir.
Brous draws her argument from ancient and contemporary wisdom, sharing heart-driven stories from the Jewish tradition and from her experience building and pastoring to the IKAR community over the past two decades.
Rabbi Sharon Brous’s upcoming book, The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World, published by Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, makes the case that in an era of loneliness, social alienation and ideological extremism, our deepest spiritual work is finding our way to one other—in celebration, sorrow, and solidarity. Relationships of care and curiosity, she argues, are essential to both personal healing and social change. This is how we reawaken our humanity.
The Amen Effect is at once soulful, tender, heartbreaking, and hopeful. It reads like a compelling narrative, a captivating sermon and a deeply intimate memoir.
Brous draws her argument from ancient and contemporary wisdom, sharing heart-driven stories from the Jewish tradition and from her experience building and pastoring to the IKAR community over the past two decades.
