The Practice Of Love community project is wrapping up much quicker than we ever imagined.  Some absolutely fabulous voices are turning in some really great stories on what it means to practice love.  We’re still looking for submissions in the category of Loving Your Enemy, if you are interested.  The submission deadline is now January 15th for new contributions.  We are wrapping the project after that.

The list of participants includes a fabulous of voices and styles: Mihee Kim-Kort, Phil Shepherd, Alise Wright, Jason Coker, Kathy Escobar, Idelette McVicker, Rhonda delaMoriniere, Arthur Dimesdale, Todd Hiestand, Trevar Simmons, Marian Struble, Annie Bullock, John Martinez, Cheryl Dack, Amy Moffitt, Neil Christopher, David Litwin, Neal Hager, Lori Wilson, Kara Maddox, Kris Socall, Jon Holmes, Hugh Hollowell, Brian Merritt, Carol Howard Merritt, Alan Knox, Zihna Gordon, Raelene Roth, and Kimberly Knight.

Much love

Jonathan

Just a quick update on The Practice Of Love.  Submissions are rolling in.  We currently have 10 different authors participating with twelve submissions.  Authors include: Kathy Escobar, Phil Shepherd, Marian Struble, Cheryl Dack, Idelette McVicker, Trevar J Simmons, John Martinez, Rhonda de la Moriniere, Annie Bullock, and Amy Moffitt.

The early submissions are predominantly in the category of loving the self, loving the neighbor and loving the enemy.  We’re still looking for submissions on loving God.

If you’d like to participate, you can find out more information about the project here.

Just a quick update on The Practice Of Love Community Project.  Submissions are already rolling in and we’re seeing some great stories of people wrestle with what it means to practice of love in today’s world.  We’re seeing some great stories on loving the self and our neighbors, but we’re not seeing enough stories on Loving God or the enemy.  If you would like to submit something, please do so here.   We’ve also added some FAQs to answer some of the initial questions we are seeing.

Even if you are not a writer, but you know someone who is and would make a great contribution to this project, feel free to forward this post on to them.

Civitas Press is pleased to announce the first community project entitled, “The Practice Of Love: Living Into The Kingdom of God.” This first project will be a joint effort of writers who are interested in writing an essay on the practice of love.  We’re looking for 1,000-2,000 word essays or stories on your personal experience of practicing love in a significant and meaningful way.  What was the cost and value of living into the Kingdom of God?  We’re not looking for theological treatise on why you should practice love, but on what it was like to live into the footsteps of Jesus.

The project is being broken up into four distinct categories: Loving God, Loving Myself, Loving My Neighbor, Loving The Enemy.  Each category will be balanced so there is a limit to the number of submissions in each category.  We are currently estimating a total of 15 essays in each category.  We are also not limiting this to experiences in the past.  If you would like to take on a specific challenge and write about, we will consider these submissions too. We will publish the project when the manuscript has enough submissions in each category.  You may submit more than one story but we will show preference to stories in different categories.

If you would like to submit to this project, you can do so below or go here.

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