The Sounds of Love and Grace

“Empathic listening is essential to ethical engagement. It helps us move beyond confirmation bias and social segregation. In The Sounds of Love and Grace, pastor, musician, and ethicist Jimi Calhoun performs a contemporary cultural commentary in view of the Ten Commandments. Jimi’s words disrupt societal discord to produce new harmony. Listen well to his constructs and cadence as he moves us from hearing the ‘Ten Sounds’ as laws to violate to a call that helps us navigate life today for new direction and meaning in social solidarity for human flourishing.”


—Paul Louis Metzger, Multnomah University and Seminary





“Jimi Calhoun has a gift for seeing familiar things in fresh ways. Let him be your guide to the Ten Commandments and you’ll be amazed at how this ancient moral code speaks to issues in tomorrow’s headlines.”


—Brian D. McLaren, author/activist





“Come experience the work of master storyteller and ethicist Jimi Calhoun. This comprehensive and well-researched book blends philosophy, theology, and sociology into a song that we all need to hear. And like all great songs, you will laugh, cry, and never be the same.”


—Robert Watson-Hemphill, pastor and spiritual entrepreneur