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The Price of Participation: Stories of Moral Weight in Public Life

The Price of Participation: Stories of Moral Weight in Public Life

Smith, G. C.

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN13: 9798385280599
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Published: Jul 9 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Price of Participation: Stories of Moral Weight in Public Life explores the hidden emotional and moral burdens carried by people who work within institutions, leadership systems, caregiving professions, public service, churches, nonprofits, disaster response, healthcare, education, and community life. Many people enter these roles hoping to help others or contribute meaningfully to the world, yet over time discover that participation in imperfect systems often involves compromise, helplessness, ethical strain, institutional failure, and the painful awareness that no one emerges entirely untouched. Drawing from stories, theology, moral psychology, caregiving experience, and public life, G. C. Smith examines how moral injury develops not only through dramatic crises but also through the slow accumulation of responsibility, difficult choices, systemic dysfunction, and exposure to human suffering. The purpose of the book is to help readers better understand the moral and emotional realities of living and working within flawed institutions without surrendering compassion, honesty, or humanity. Rather than offering simplistic solutions, the book encourages deeper reflection, truth-telling, humility, resilience, and the difficult work of remaining fully human in complicated public and professional life.

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