ISBN 978-1-923589-77-3
PAPERBACK
Words of Grace
52 Reflections
A companion for every week of your year
Neil Tucker offers 52 reflections – one for each week of the calendar year. Each reflection considers a ‘word of grace’ which regularly recurs in the Bible: all, thanks, joy, peace, love, forgiveness, anxiety, and the words ‘Christmas’ and ‘Easter’. These words capture key concepts of human living, and the core beliefs of Christian faith.
This book’s purpose is not to argue the validity of each concept. It presents each word as a coherent idea of Christian tradition occurring in passages of the Bible, songs, and scholarly references. Readers will make their own choices of what they wish to believe.
Words of Grace was prompted by the author’s own personal journey of human living and search for understanding. It is written for fellow travellers in a contemporary world that has no shared narrative of human story and purpose, of secular belief and faith. The 18th century idea emphasising individual access to the divine, to science, and to any truth of human knowledge, has become in the 21st century “There is (are) no universal truth(s). There is only my (felt) truth – about anything.”
Whatever the faith position of readers, the ways of feeling and thinking offered here are profoundly influential in finding a personal daily way of human living and being.
About the Author
Dr Neil Tucker (BA BD Dip Ed GrDipPsych&Couns MA Educ MBA Exec PhD FIML) is a lifelong learner, educator and leader. He has been a principal and governing chair of 4 K-12 schools, and lay leader of Christian worship in 4 Australian states. His recent books are Educating for humanity: The holistic principle (Routledge 2025) and Being and becoming a Head of school (in prepublication). He has also co-written The Rest of your life: How to make it as good as you want (Baby Boomers Lifechange, 2010).