Type Nine: The Peacemaker

Emily Scott didn’t plan on becoming a pastor when she started a “Dinner Church” for misfits in Brooklyn. Every week, this diverse collective of people broke bread with each other, sang hymns, and did their best to make conversation around the table. When Hurricane Sandy slams New York, the unlikely congregation finds out just how important community can be, as they bail water out of basements and canvass emptied apartment buildings. Scott shows us how these small acts of connection hold immense power.

This collection of writings explores the inspiring lifework of Joanna Macy, a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and ecology, a teacher, and an activist. Spiritual leaders, deep ecologists, writers, and activists all explore Macy’s life, in essays interwoven with eleven pieces of writing by Macy herself. Find words of wisdom and belonging in this inspiring collection.

For Nines who struggle to reveal themselves to others, this is a novel about connection through authenticity. It begins when Julian Jessop, artistic loner, writes the truth about his own life in a green journal and leaves it in a cafe. Then the cafe owner Monica writes her own entry, and deposits the book in a wine bar across the street. Soon, others find the notebook and add their own truths to it, leading them all to meet and form friendships in real life at Monica’s cafe.