{"product_id":"love-is-good-religion-a-30-day-journey-to-compassion-contemplation-and-connection-9781957687827","title":"Love Is Good Religion: A 30-Day Journey to Compassion, Contemplation, and Connection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe bring a lot with us when reading the Bible. Trey Ferguson asks us to read it again through the lens of love . . . not as sentiment, but as a commitment to wholeness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLove Is Good Religion: A 30-Day Journey to Compassion, Contemplation, and Connection\u003c\/em\u003e, pastor and public theologian Trey Ferguson cuts through our overfamiliarity and invites us to reread scripture in light of its persistent call to love, liberation, community, and human wholeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross thirty readings of his distinctive New Living Treyslation and deeply personal commentary, Trey argues that the first thing God calls \"not good\" is human isolation. He explores John 3:16 not as a message about saving the unworthy but as a declaration of God-affirmed value. He also encounters Hagar from the underside of power, finding hope in an enslaved woman who names \"the God who sees me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is a different way of understanding love itself. Love is more than kindness, sentiment, or personal virtue: it is a commitment to wholeness: our own, our neighbors', and all of creation. And it's not a zero-sum game. In a culture that so often legitimizes division, hierarchy, and conformity, Trey asks us to turn toward compassion, contemplation, and connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePersonal, affecting, and grounded, \u003cem\u003eLove Is Good Religion\u003c\/em\u003e is an invitation to discover a faith that draws us more deeply toward God, one another, and a more whole world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Trey Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lake Drive Books, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781957687827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFerguson, Trey:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Trey Ferguson is a minister, writer, and speaker, with an MDiv from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. He's the author of Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly. His thoughts on faith in an evolving world can be found on the Three Black Men: Theology, Culture, and the World around Us and New Living Treyslation podcasts, in The Son Do Move newsletter, and @pastortrey05 on social media. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife and children. Learn more at pastortrey05.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Trey Ferguson \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48968823210141,"sku":"9781957687827","price":31.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_9fc9f072-199e-47bd-8dbd-1ab25e10ca92.jpg?v=1790753006","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/love-is-good-religion-a-30-day-journey-to-compassion-contemplation-and-connection-9781957687827","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}