Alice Connor is an Episcopal priest and a chaplain on a college campus. She is the author of Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation and How to Human: An Incomplete Manual for Living in a Messed-Up World. Alice is a certified enneagram teacher and a stellar pie-maker. She lives for challenging conversations and has a high tolerance for awkwardness. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband, two kids, a dog, and no cats.
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Introduction: Try it, you'll like it. 1. Take people seriously. 2. Do shit on purpose. 3. Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something. 4. Take off the costume. 5. If it's not okay, it's not the end. 6. It's okay to feel your feelings. 7. Say the thing. 8. Ask for what you need. 9. You're involved, not in control. 10. If we eat together, we will not betray one another. 11. Consider the lilies, dammit. 12. Ambiguity is neither good nor bad. 13. Everything's awkward. Lean into it. Conclusion: So what?
"If you like your spirituality books laced equally with wisdom, memoir, and snarky humor . . .If you have enjoyed authors like Nadia Bolz-Weber, Rachel Held Evans, and Peter Enns . . .Then let me commend to you Alice Connor's How to Human: An Incomplete Manual for Living in a Messed-up World. It's a smart and playful take on theological adulting, basically." --Jana Riess, Religion News Service "We need Alice Connor's calm, vulnerable wisdom to help us cross the deep chasms that are tearing our world apart--to learn to be curious about those we disagree with, to take them seriously, to listen intently." --Debbie Blue, author of Consider the Women, Consider the Birds, and Sensual Orthodoxy "Connor's provocative recipe book for life is relevant to anyone trying to figure out how to be a human being who makes mistakes but is still abundantly loved and transformed by our experiences together." --Aaron Billard, Unvirtuous Abbey "How to Human challenges us to address the uncomfortable dimensions of our life. The payoff is well worth it." --Seamus Carey, president, Transylvania University "How to Human is a true gift to anyone wise enough to take in the goodness poured out on these pages." --Bart Campolo, humanist chaplain at the University of Cincinnati and host of the Humanize Me podcast