To Be Made Well, Amy Julia Becker
To Be Made Well, Amy Julia Becker
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To Be Made Well
An Invitation to Wholeness, Healing, and Hope

Author: Amy Julia Becker

Narrator: Amy Julia Becker

Unabridged: 5 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/24/2022


Synopsis

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.

About Amy Julia Becker

Amy Julia Becker is an award-winning writer and speaker on faith, family, disability, and culture. She is the author of several books, including White Picket Fences: Turning Towards Love in a World Divided by Privilege. She hosts the Love Is Stronger than Fear podcast.

Becker was born in Edenton, North Carolina, but has spent her adult life in the northeastern United States. A graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, Becker now lives with her husband Peter and three children, Penny, William, and Marilee, in western Connecticut. Becker has a bi-vocational license with the Evangelical Covenant Church. She and her family are members of Salem Covenant Church.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dorothy on March 15, 2022

I finished To Be Made Well less than a week ago and already want to go back and reread it. It's a beautiful, rich, and encouraging book, written by a mature believer who has obviously done her own spiritual work. Becker's belief is that Jesus brings healing to those who admit their need and that par......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on March 09, 2022

Amy Julia Becker offers a thoughtful and beautifully-written exploration of holistic healing (body, mind, spirit) in its various forms: personal, spiritual and communal. Becker’s wise and encouraging voice invites us to consider the concept of shalom — God’s desire for our peace, harmony and wholene......more

Goodreads review by Megan on November 30, 2021

My opinions regarding Amy Julia Becker's forthcoming book "To Be Made Well" are mixed. To start I was impressed by the book and the research that Becker did and included in. She quotes a wide variety of experts and writers which, to my opinion, lends her credibility. Though her story is similar in as......more

Goodreads review by Sean on February 27, 2022

Ultimately, this is a book about wholeness. And what a wonderful book it is. Amy Julia Becker, whose book A Good and Perfect Gift is still one of my favorites, has written a compelling book about healing that doesn’t reduce healing to merely the curing of our physical ailments, but rather places it......more

Goodreads review by Kim on March 05, 2022

Amy Julia Becker, author of “White Picket Fences” and “a good and perfect gift,” zooms in on the overlapping encounters of Jesus with the unnamed, unclean ‘bleeding woman’ and the well-known, religious leader named Jairus from Mark’s gospel, chapter 5. While different in every way, both people were......more