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    Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World
    Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World
    Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World
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    Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World

    Written by Jonathan Reckford and Jimmy Carter

    Narrated by Jimmy Carter and Robert Petkoff

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    Inspiring and insightful, Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World celebrates the shared principles that unite and enable us to overcome life’s challenges together.

    “When the waters rise, so do our better angels.”—President Jimmy Carter

    Jonathan Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity, has seen time and again the powerful benefits that arise when people from all walks of life work together to help one another. In this uplifting book, he shares true stories of people involved with Habitat as volunteers and future homeowners who embody seven timeless virtues—kindness, community, empowerment, joy, respect, generosity, and service—and shows how we can all practice these to improve the quality of our own lives as well as those around us.

    A Vietnam veteran finds peace where he was once engaged in war. An impoverished single mother offers her family’s time and energy to enrich their neighbors’ lives. A Zambian family of nine living in a makeshift tent makes room to shelter even more. A teenager grieving for his mother honors her love and memory by ensuring other people have a place to call home. A former president of the United States leads by example with a determined work ethic that motivates everyone around him to be the best version of themselves.

    These stories, and many others, illustrate how virtues become values, how cooperation becomes connection, and how even the smallest act of compassion can encourage actions that transform the world around us. Here are tales that will make readers laugh and cry and embrace with passion the calling of our better angels to change the way we take care of ourselves, our families, our communities, and the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 8, 2019
    ISBN9781250244369
    Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World
    Author

    Jonathan Reckford

    Jonathan Reckford has served as chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity International since 2005. Under his leadership, Habitat has gone from helping 125,000 individuals annually to more than 8.7 million people last year alone build strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Reckford earned his MBA from Stanford and went on to managerial positions at Goldman Sachs, Marriott, Walt Disney Company, and Best Buy. Reckford also served as executive pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina, Minnesota. In 2017, Reckford was named Influencer of the Year by the Nonprofit Times.

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