I Am Who Loves the Prophets

I Am Who Loves the Prophets is a beautiful and haunting meditation on exile, a central experience in the history of the Jewish people but now experienced by diverse peoples and faiths around the world. For Jewish theologian Marc H. Ellis, exile began when he found his voice of dissent after the Holocaust and after what Israel has done and is doing to the Palestinian people. In these meditations, Ellis brings us to an intimate encounter with God as his exile deepens and he finds meaning in the everyday joys and anxieties of life. Ellis’s meditations are also conversations with exiles of all stripes, an eclectic group of writers--Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, Adrienne Rich--and spiritual guides--Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Simone Weil, Shunryu Suzuki. Shall we join the conversation?

MARC H. ELLIS is professor of history and Jewish studies, formerly of the Maryknoll School of Theology and Baylor University. He is founding director of the Center for the New Diaspora and the Global Prophetic and the author and editor of thirty books, including Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation and Finding Our Voice: Embodying the Prophetic and Other Misadventures.