Still Love Left: Faith and Hope in Later Life - Softcover

Jackson, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1913425681 ISBN 13: 9781913425685

Publisher: YoUCaxton Publications, 2021

Synopsis

Still Love Left will help readers embrace old age in ways that strengthen their faith and help them build a deep sense of hope in later life.

In this life-afirming work, Michael Jackson draws inspiration from poets, writers and Christian theologians in order to explore his theme of ageing and spirituality and he does this with great empathy, drawing on a wide range of literary sources and comparing perspectives of past, present and future. By using these different lenses he is able to demonstrate the spiritual gains which help us to approach old age positively and how we can develop the qualities which most exemplify a fulfilled old age. He melds many years’ experience of working with older people with current thinking on the subject, providing an exploration of the spiritual dimension of ageing rooted in the Christian faith.

The Right Reverend Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool

Michael Jackson brings a unique and distilled wisdom, born of long reflection on rich experience, to this subject. His book is clear-eyed, honest, unsparing and luminously hopeful. I recommend it highly to any who want to learn how to live more fully as the years pass.

The Reverend Canon Dr. Peter Lippiett, Former Spirituality Advisor for the Diocese of Portsmouth

This is a stunningly good book. It is rich, humane, and life-enhancing, redolent with wisdom, compassion and flashes of humour. It demonstrates how to ‘hone hard experience so that it becomes a pathway to wisdom’. Above all, in the face of contemporary views of the bleakness of old age – unflinchingly addressed, in no way dismissed or romanticised – it really positively encourages hope. Michael Jackson not only informs and stimulates, but benefits his readers. This careful, timely book is a blessing. Perhaps it may even become a classic.

Debbie Thrower, Pioneer of Anna Chaplaincy for Older People and Canon Emeritus of Winchester Cathedral

I’ve been waiting for just such a book as this. I knew it was coming because I’ve worked with Michael Jackson co-leading retreats and training days on the opportunities and challenges of growing old. Now, we have an abundance of good things gathered for us to read and reflect on. I shall plunder his book shamelessly for so many examples to help myself, and others, regard ageing realistically and excitedly as an adventuresome path to maturity.

Front Cover: The late Bill Garrett and Win Job at St. John’s Winchester Charity, having both become centenarians.
Photo by Scott Redgrave.

Edition details

• Publisher: YoUCaxton Publications
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913425681
• ISBN 13: 9781913425685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 155