Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters Across the Color Line

In "Hope Sings, So Beautiful," award-winning author Christopher Pramuk offers a mosaic of images and sketches for thinking and praying through difficult questions about race. The reader will encounter the perspectives of artists, poets, and theologians from many different ethnic and racial communities.

This richly illustrated book is not primarily sociological or ethnographic in approach. Rather, its horizon is shaped by questions of theology, spirituality, and pastoral practice. Pramuk's challenging work on this difficult topic will stimulate fruitful conversations and fresh thinking, whether in private study or prayer; in classrooms, churches, and reading groups; or among friends and family around the dinner tale.

"Christopher Pramuk is associate professor of theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of "Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton" (Liturgical Press, 2009) and the recipient of the Catholic Theological Society of America's 2009 Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award, the International Thomas Merton Society's 2011 Thomas Merton Award (aka The Louie"), and several best essay awards from the Catholic Press Association. ""