Good and Beautiful and Kind

Becoming Whole in a Fractured World

By: Rich Villodas

Narrated by: Ann Voskamp, Rich Villodas, Rachel Perry

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

ECPA BESTSELLER • An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience—from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award

“A stunning book with power to reshape our world . . . if we let it.”—Glenn Packiam, pastor and author of Blessed Broken Given

We long for a good life, a beautiful life, a kind life. But clearly that’s not the world we live in. We carry the stress of our fractured world in our bodies and relationships. Families that once gathered around tables have converted those tables into walls. Hostility, rage, and offense is the language of our culture.

How did we lose goodness, kindness, and beauty? And more important, how do we get them back into our lives? These are the two questions crying out in our streets, homes, churches, and from deep within our souls.

Pastor and author Rich Villodas is convinced that only Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we experience daily.

In Good and Beautiful and Kind, he reveals how…

• These three essentials are stolen by sin, powers and principalities, and trauma.

• We can get goodness, beauty, and kindness back through contemplative prayer, humility, and the cultivation of calm presence.

• The traits of healthy conflict, forgiveness, and justice lead to wholeness, healing, and a new collective future—when rooted in the ancient way of Jesus.

Filled with fresh energy, classic truth, and practical solutions, this is your road map for stepping beyond distraction and division to love like Jesus. Doing so will change the atmosphere within you…and around you!

©2022 Rich Villodas (P)2022 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“Good and Beautiful and Kind is a peaceful, gracious, and wise formulation of what it looks like to follow Jesus in a world ripping apart by a lack of love, by systemic powers, and by our own woundedness. Give yourself a retreat to spend time with this beautiful book.”—Rev. Canon Dr. Scot McKnight, professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary

“We desperately need resources to heal the brokenness, deception, and deformation that has crept into the church. In this beautiful book, Rich Villodas lays out a vision, theology, framework, and life-giving practices to help us restore our integrity . . .”—Jon Tyson, author of Beautiful Resistance and pastor of Church of the City New York

“This book is a gift to us all! Rich not only identifies the fractures in our world and wounds in our souls, but he also provides a pathway to wholeness. In a broken and disillusioned world, these pages are full of hope and healing. You will discover that the ancient way of Jesus is actually the path to the future.”—Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women

Excellent work!

Encouraging, convicting, and teaching! A warm beckoning to the Believer to let the Holy Spirit do His work within us so we are found to be faithful servants in our work, be it great or small, as we go and make disciples.

Phenomenal

Incredibly powerful writing. I definitely recommend. Rich’s chapter on spiritual warfare is one of the best I’ve ever read.

So Awesome!

Yessss!
A great follow up to his last book !!!
Waiting for next one! thank you Rich.

What you thought you were doing right?

A True and better detail understanding of being good beautiful and kind Gods way, Amen

Rich: a voice of hope and love for this day!

This book is both a challenge and an encouragement to be the change this world so greatly needs. His voice speaks to our hearts, from the heart of Jesus, for us to be who we were CREATED to be. It all begins with our own inner work, then the call to intentionally change the world around us. I greatly recommend this work, first for yourself, then for your neighbor!

Beautiful and important message

Pastor Villodas’ book truly identifies the practical and spiritual challenges of the present day. Then offers words of biblical wisdom on how to be better and do better. This is not a pretentious book. It is a beautiful read that anyone can benefit from, no matter your background.

A Clear Map and Invitation

I have the pleasure of learning from Rich Villodas regularly as part of the 2022-2023 cohort of New Life Fellowship’s School of Formation, and after being introduced and learning so much from The Deeply Formed Life, I was very excited to read Good and Beautiful and Kind. It did not disappoint! Rich offers such clarity, vulnerability, and loving challenge - not as someone who has already arrived, but as a brother on the journey alongside you. I give this book my highest recommendation!

So grateful!

Thank you so much for this, for being bold and talk about the things that the church doesn’t mention!

Excellent book!

Well written and full of Biblical truths. If you don't feel the tug of the Holy Spirit at different points of this book you aren't being honest with yourself. It really makes you to start evaluating your heart to see if you are good, beautiful and kind.

Wisdom for the modern world

Excellent listen for anyone seeking wisdom in the modern world. Thank you Pastor for this wonderful work.