The Beatitudes

In an age of performance, division, and carefully curated selves, the Beatitudes arrive as a quiet interruption. They do not flatter us. They do not offer easy comfort or quick solutions. They describe, with a precision that has not aged in two thousand years, a way of being in the world that runs directly against the grain of almost everything our culture rewards. Glen Pearson brings these ancient words into conversation with contemporary Canadian life — its loneliness and its outrage, its hunger for justice and its erosion of trust — and with the thinkers, saints, and ordinary people who have illuminated what genuine human flourishing looks like when it is actually lived. This is a book about formation. About what kind of person the world needs. And about the surprising, costly, deeply sustaining blessing of becoming that person.