Ed Bacon – 8 Habits of Love: Open Your Heart, Open Your Mind

Testimonials

Amy Brenneman, Actress and Producer

Ed’s book , ’8 Habits of Love’, is joyous, compassionate and useful.  He appeals to all sorts of people, in all sorts of culture, because of his universal message of love over fear.  I read it when I needed it and have practiced these habits already — and in stresssful moments!  They work. I am lucky to be a parishoner at All Saint’s Pasadena and to hear Ed preach on a weekly basis.  I didn’t think a book could capture his infectious excitement and dynamic style.  I was wrong.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Ed Bacon’s book has left me tingling with excitement. Living the habits of love he describes seems difficult at first, but then he offers real life examples of people doing just that, and what seemed far too idealistic begins to seem doable even by the likes of me.

Regina Brett

Open this book and suddenly you’re sitting in a pew or on a porch, mesmerized by  stories and sermons you’ll want your heart to memorize for life. They made me laugh and cry and want to be a better person.

Connie Domino

MPH, RN author of The Law of Forgiveness

In the warm hearted and passionate style he is known for, Ed explains the simple principles by which we can order our experience as actual “habits” we can develop to shape our reality in a manner that allows us to live a truly authentic life with an open heart from a place called love. Ed explains beautifully how our decision to turn our backs on fear with the courage to choose  forgiveness, compassion, and loves ripples out and touches the hearts and minds of others and they respond in kind moving ever closer to a whole world that dwells in the Spirit of Love. Thank you Ed for sharing great wisdom!

The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson

Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire

Any preacher worth his salt will preach “love your neighbor,” but only a few can tell his listeners what that really looks like or how to achieve it. Ed Bacon, in 8 Habits of Love, not only puts meat onto the bones of what it means to love one’s neighbor, but does so in plain, understandable language, spiced with inspiring examples from his own life and those with whom he has ministered. This is a must-read book for people of any faith who want to know the “how” of loving, helpfully broken into eight “habits” that offer real guidance, insight, and inspiration. I could not recommend it more highly.

Mark Nepo

author of The Book of Awakening and Seven Thousand Ways To Listen

Rev Ed Bacon is a wise, honest, and welcoming teacher who gently affirms that the power of love is always near and restorative, if we can meet its responsibility to live with an open heart. Whatever path you follow, this personal and universal book models the habits—very much in reach—by which we can ground our lives in love.

Gregory Boyle

Author of Tattoos of the Heart, Founder/Director--Homeboy Industries

Ed Bacon’s singularly helpful book moves the dial for all those seeking a more ‘affluent spirituality.’ They say ‘practice makes perfect’– but the embrace of Bacon’s “8 Habits of Love” pivots the reader from a life driven by fear to one anchored in the very spaciousness of God. Ed Bacon leads where we all long to go.

Marcus Borg

author of bestselling The Heart of Christianity

This very wise book is a powerful, personal and practical invitation to move beyond the fear-based life that marks so much of contemporary culture into a life grounded in the habits of love.

James Carroll

Author of Constantine’s Sword, Columnist for The Boston Globe

A book of stillness, full of wisdom and practical holiness. Its stories are moving and hopeful. A profound extension of Ed Bacon’s exemplary ministry.

Elizabeth Lesser

Cofounder Omega Institute, Author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

Ed Bacon’s handbook for loving and living offers us practical ways of moving past the kind of fear-based thinking and destructive choices that cloud our hearts and keep us trapped in half-lived lives. Ed’s exuberance and experience resound on every page, calling us joyfully to live the habits of love.

Kim Rosen

author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words

Even after having read 8 Habits of Love cover to cover, I return to its pages everyday as I would to the company of a dear friend. With disarming transparency, Reverend Ed offers us stories, insight and practical guidance to create a contagion of love, a revolution of the heart.