Patra McSharry Sevastiades
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Patra McSharry Sevastiades

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Patra McSharry Sevastiades, who began her professional career editing scientific papers by Soviet emigre scientists, is the author of several children's nonfiction books, including The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and The Hoover Dam. She edited Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation and The Gospel of Love: A Meta-Translation. In Grace Unbound, Ms. Sevastiades and Bishop Demetrios C. Kantzavelos recount the bishop's unexpected calling, while still a young priest, to social activism. In the priest's face-to-face encounters with two men--Bob, a man dying from complications due to AIDS, and Andrew, a convicted murderer whose execution is less than three weeks away--he discovers that social activism, far from breaking with the tradition of the Church, is reclaiming it. -- “Bishop Demetrios's fervent call to rise up and confront the challenge of social unrighteousness is a call to affirm life.” —Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, author of Dead Man Walking “A compelling account of faith in action.” —George Stephanopoulos, co-anchor on Good Morning America, host of ABC’s This Week “As a founding member of ACT UP, I’ve protested against the AIDS response from mainstream religions, including being arrested inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral. But, even then, I knew that these institutions weren’t monolithic. There were internal struggles to do the right thing. Bishop Demetrios’s stirring account of pushing the Greek Orthodox Diocese (now Metropolis) of Chicago towards a compassionate response during the early years of the crisis proves that AIDS activism came in many forms, full of empathy and inspiration.” —Peter Staley, author of Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism “Social ministry, [Bishop Demetrios] argues, is not breaking with the tradition of the church—it is reclaiming it. . . . I recommend Grace Unbound highly to anyone interested in the church and its ministries of justice, service, and peace.” —Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, former general secretary, National Council of Churches "Grace Unbound is a moving portrait of the power of empathy, faith, and hope enduring. Bishop Demetrios' story illustrates how, by drawing from a deep sense of purpose, we can respond to injustice with compassion and unwavering resolve." —George M. Logothetis, executive chairman of Libra Group, chairman of Libra Philanthropies
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