ORDINARY GRACE:
An Examination of the Roots of Compassion, Altruism and Empathy  and the Ordinary Individuals Who Help Others in Extraordinary Ways.

                                 Kathleen A. Brehony, Ph.D.

Riverhead Books
New York, NY
Hardcover/$24.95
242 pages

Ordinary Grace is based on personal interviews Brehony conducted with people from all over the United States. Examples of men and women  who exhibit compassion, generosity, courage, loyalty, mercy, forgiveness, love, honesty, faith and tolerance demonstrate the ways in which people can enrich their lives with a sacred and soulful energy. Brehony  delves into the experiences, philosophies, beliefs and perceptions of these people in order to discover underlying commonalities of spirit, vision, temperance and humility. She turns the modern obsession with the  pathology of evil on its head, establishing instead a pathology of goodness and shows us how we can find grace every day in our own lives.

Copyright Trio Publications Jul/Aug 1999