Zehr wrote the book, which offers the reader forty daily reflections/devotions, for three reasons. The first was a desire “to make a healing contribution to the ethnic and religious polarization of our time.” Second, he wanted to “deepen and broaden our relationships as individuals and congregations with people of other religions.” Finally, he wrote the book out of an interest in helping “people find inner peace and become peacemakers in our world.” (p. xiii).