Living Well While Doing Good

by Donna Schaper

Can we really enjoy the world while trying to save it? Many of us want to do both, but find a balance difficult to achieve. Part how-to and part memoir, Schaper's book shows us a socially responsible way of having it all.

The short, humorous chapters are about food, children, money, romance. From the Slow Food Movement to the lighting of simple fires, Schaper provides basic strategies and spiritual solutions for living well and doing good, drawing from her own experience of working for social change while attempting to live fully.

117 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2007

Reviews

[Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first time my spiritual director mentioned this book I bought it. After it came up a second & third time I finally read it. Schaper gives practical ideas for simplifying life. She uses the term “simple fires” as a play on words for simplifiers. Some of its language felt somewhat gimicky after a while, but I will use her ideas as inspiration to change some habits that I hope will help me build a ministry whose pace I can actually sustain.