{"product_id":"we-the-ordinary-people-of-the-streets-9780802846969","title":"We, the Ordinary People of the Streets","description":"We, the Ordinary People of the Streets comprises the powerful reflections by Madeleine Delbrêl (1904-1964), an award-winning poet, writer, and Catholic layperson whose conviction and insight led her to a life of social work in the atheistic, Communist-dominated city of Ivry-sur-Seine, France. Delbrêl draws from her own experiences living in Ivry, witnessing to the possibility of a life at once rooted radically in the church and fully engaged in the world. This posthumously published collection spans Delbrêl's life, from a piece she wrote as a seventeen-year-old atheist to her later Christian works. Her passionate essays explore the Christian's role in a secular society, the difficulty of faith in an atheistic environment, the need for prayer, the centrality of the church, and the fundamental importance of loving both God and our neighbors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMADELEINE DELBRÊL\u003c\/b\u003e, a poet by nature and an atheist by conviction, underwent a radical conversion at the age of twenty that led her to found, in 1933, a \"gospel\" community of lay women dedicated to poverty, chastity, and work among the poor. Though publishing only two books during her lifetime, including La Route, a book of poetry awarded the Sully Prudhomme Prize, she left behind a wealth of texts now collected in four volumes.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562915533074,"sku":"9780802846969","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c3ee6cf-3568-4116-bd47-82db02c9661e.jpg?v=1731864745","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-the-ordinary-people-of-the-streets-9780802846969","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}