Just Traveling : God, Leaving Home, and a Spirituality for the Road

"Just Traveling celebrates overcoming distance and seeking difference as defining human traits. Following the scriptural witness of God as theEarthroamer, the book explores the liminal qualities of traveling through six movements: anticipating, leaving, surrendering, meeting, caring, and returning. To travel is to move at the speed of being present to ones experiences, bridging distance and difference through acts of care. Drawing on personal experience as well as the wisdom of theology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and cultural studies, Hammanreimagines travel in a welcoming and beautiful, yet also complex and troubled world.Whether leaving home serves our wanderlust and curiosity or has personal or spiritual purposes; whether we travel a few miles or cover vast distances, we travel best when we contribute to human flourishing. Care the compassionate reaching out to someone or something is the practice that allows one to travel differently. The spirituality of roads is filled with hopeful

restorative potential, and life is best lived with the Earthroamer. [Publisher's Text]