Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace
A Religion, Spirituality, Memoir book. This was okay. Really, just okay. Very well written, but she annoyed...
In the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection as Gallagher searches for direction in the wake of her brother’s death. A desire to reclaim her own “wild life” and a sense of the sacred in the world compels her to assess everything: her marriage, her writing career, and her commitment to parish life. A profound testimony to the urgency of living with meaning, to the natural world’s solace and sacredness and...
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- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9780375705632 / 375705635
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This was okay. Really, just okay. Very well written, but she annoyed me some and I can't exactly say that it really went much of anywhere. Yuck. I picked up this book at my cute little neighborhood 'pocket library' based on its very lovely cover, but not realizing how nauseatingly entitled/ navel-gazing religious it was inside that lovely cover. While I can tolerate--and even like--Madeline L'Engle's Episcopalian/spiritual writings, Gallagher's I cannot find anything remotely--well,... Nora Gallagher chronicles her "year of discernment" for the Episcopal priesthood. Reflecting on her personal experiences, she describes her choice, once she has been approved to attend seminary to be ordained. This is a great illustration of the discernment process at work. Listening for call and discerning where it leads is no simple...
