I read the bulk of it during the plane rides to and from DFW and the Dynamic Church 2008 conference. The authors made an appearance on NPR's science Friday a couple months ago, and I happened to catch a big chunk of their segment during an In-N-Out run.
There are so many concepts discussed in the book which resonate with me. Mostly, they resonate as the things that God is trying to lead us away from with many of the instructions in the bible.
For example, the book relates how, once you have performed a favor for someone you view as an enemy, your brain seeks to square away the dissonant notion that you are helping someone you perceive to be bad. Therefore, with the action already taken, one's mind lessens the disparity by improving that persons image. When Jesus exhorts us to pray for our enemies, he is accomplishing at least two things: a) someone is being prayed for, and b) in praying for this person, we are moving them from a category of 'they,' e.g. bad people who aren't esteemed enough by us to deserve our prayer, into a circle of those whom we value, and probably from there into a circle of those whom we can no longer view as completely separate from us.
There are all kinds of similar issues throughout the book. I don't usually make notes or fold corners while I go, but this book is going to end up a bit dog-eared once everyone is done reading it.
Check it out.
