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If, in its crudest interpretation, karma is getting what you deserve, then grace is the opposite: forgiving the unforgivable, favouring the undeserving, loving the unlovable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut we live in an era where grace is an increasingly rare currency. The silos we consume information in are dotting the media landscape like skyscrapers, and the growing distrust in media, politicians and public figures, have in some ways choked our ability to cut each other slack, to allow each other to stumble, to forgive one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo what does grace look like in our world, and how do we recognise it, nurture it in ourselves, and express it, even in the darkest of times?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning journalist Julia Baird, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Phosphorescence, comes Bright Shining, a luminously beautiful, deeply insightful and most timely exploration of grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Fascinating, wide-ranging and moving' The Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The uplift and power of Bright Shining ... is to be found in the way Baird gives grace fresh currency by bringing this beautiful and elusive condition from the theological margins into the mainstream and showing, with passion and verve, how quietly transformative it can be.' 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