Just Traveling

<p><i>Just Traveling </i>celebrates overcoming distance and seeking difference as defining human traits. Following the scriptural witness of God as the<i> </i>Earthroamer 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 one's 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 Hamman<i> </i>reimagines travel in a welcoming and beautiful yet also complex and troubled world.</p><p>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.</p>