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To Be Made Well
How can we be made well?
From hurting bodies and souls to hurting relationships and communities, it’s clear that things are not as they should be. Some of us live with varying degrees of physical pain, and others of us harbor the emotional pain of loneliness, shame, and guilt. Looking at our culture more broadly, we see the harm of our social divisions and the unyielding reality and impact of injustice and inequity. The gospels brim with stories of Jesus healing people, but what does that mean for us today?
In To Be Made Well, author Amy Julia Becker weaves together her own story with reflections on biblical accounts of Jesus’ healing work, providing fresh insight into both the nature of healing and the pathway to healing, then and now. This book is a powerful invitation to personal, spiritual, and social healing as we reconnect to our bodies and souls, to God, and to our communities.
For anyone struggling with pain or loss, for anyone concerned about the things that divide us, this book goes beyond wellness and beyond miraculous physical transformations to explore how we can—personally and collectively—be made well.
From hurting bodies and souls to hurting relationships and communities, it’s clear that things are not as they should be. Some of us live with varying degrees of physical pain, and others of us harbor the emotional pain of loneliness, shame, and guilt. Looking at our culture more broadly, we see the harm of our social divisions and the unyielding reality and impact of injustice and inequity. The gospels brim with stories of Jesus healing people, but what does that mean for us today?
In To Be Made Well, author Amy Julia Becker weaves together her own story with reflections on biblical accounts of Jesus’ healing work, providing fresh insight into both the nature of healing and the pathway to healing, then and now. This book is a powerful invitation to personal, spiritual, and social healing as we reconnect to our bodies and souls, to God, and to our communities.
For anyone struggling with pain or loss, for anyone concerned about the things that divide us, this book goes beyond wellness and beyond miraculous physical transformations to explore how we can—personally and collectively—be made well.
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Praise for To Be Made Well
“Amy Julia Becker is one of the best practical theologians writing today. Her books are poignant, personal, and deeply profound, and To Be Made Well is no exception. Healing is a complex and complicated topic, but Amy Julia treats it with all the tender nuance and care it requires while offering hard-won insights along the way. If you are tired of simplistic answers but still searching for hope, you will find it here.”SHARON HODDE MILLER, author of Free of Me: Why Life Is Better When It’s Not about You
“Amy Julia Becker is a brilliant writer who has masterfully explored the complex and sensitive topic of healing in a vulnerable, sobering, and comprehensive way. Whether sickness is in our body, our soul, or society, whether we are presently ill, recovering from illness, or on the way to being ill—this book will better equip you both for your journey in the healing process and to be an agent of healing.”DAVID M. BAILEY, founder of Arrabon and coauthor of A People, a Place, and a Just Society
“Timely, practical, and full of hope, To Be Made Well is a beautiful offering for our weary, splintered, and hurting world. Amy Julia Becker skillfully addresses our personal and collective need for healing through examples from the Bible, from her own life, and from a diverse range of trusted leaders. These pages hold timeless lessons and helpful application. Highly recommend!”VIVIAN MABUNI, speaker, author of Open Hands, Willing Heart, and founder and podcast host of Someday Is Here for AAPI women leaders
“Amy Julia Becker has written a beautiful book, grounded in the person of Jesus and the healing he brings. This is not a book with a before-and-after story of miraculous healing; it is a book about how we live in a fractured world with bodies that bear on and in them the brokenness of living. It is a book about how we see Jesus, how he sees us, and how his love heals us just a little bit more each day.”LORE FERGUSON WILBERT, author of A Curious Life: The Questions God Asks, We Ask, and We Wish Someone Would Ask Us and Handle with Care: How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch in Life and Ministry
“In an age marked by division, detachment, and dis-ease at every level, from the intimately personal to our society at large, Amy Julia Becker has a word of hope: Jesus can make us whole and well. What that holistic healing looks like and how we can participate in it is the creative gift offered in these pages.”DAVID SWANSON, pastor of New Community Covenant Church and CEO of New Community Outreach
“Amy Julia Becker’s words have been a salve for my soul for many years, and the words in this book are no different. With vulnerability, wisdom, and grace, Amy Julia guides us towards seeking and understanding what it really means to be made well. I hope everyone reads this book.”HEATHER AVIS, New York Times bestselling author of The Lucky Few and Different: A Great Thing to Be
“Amy Julia Becker turns the stories of the bleeding woman and Jairus’s daughter over like a prism to show readers all facets and shed light on our personal, spiritual, and communal longings to be whole. Her writing is honest, insightful, and unafraid of complexity, always leading us beyond ourselves and into the mystery of Jesus, our ultimate healer. I hope many read this book and accept the invitation to participate in God’s deep and wide work of healing.”LIUAN HUSKA, author of Hurting Yet Whole: Reconciling Body and Spirit in Chronic Pain and Illness