A poet-memoirist reclaims Christianity’s ‘scary vocabulary,’ blending theology, etymology, and personal conversion into reflective essays on faith.
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A poet-memoirist reclaims Christianity’s ‘scary vocabulary,’ blending theology, etymology, and personal conversion into reflective essays on faith.
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Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"even "Christ"formed what she called her "scary vocabulary," words that had become so codified or abstract that their meanings were all but impenetrable. She found she had to wrestle with them and make them her own before they could confer their blessings and their grace...
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Devotional essays on Christian terms, conversion, church life, and Benedictine practice
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Brief critiques of fundamentalism, New Age thought, and secular pride
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