![]() "The clerk at the grocery store is messenger enough for me, at least if I give her a fraction of the attention that I lavish on my interior monologue. ![]() "What if people were invited" (to church)"to come tell what they already know of God instead of to learn what they are supposed to believe? What if they were blessed for what they are doing in the world instead of chastened for not doing more at church? What if church felt more like a way station than a destination? What if the church's job were to move people out the door instead of trying to keep them in, by convincing them that God needed them more in the world than in the church?" The last 50 pages of my copy is full of dog-ears. We couldn't have started our faith journeys more differently, but we ended up on very similiar land. I wanted a slightly less guarded tone, but when it felt guarded, it was her old congregation's privacy she was mostly guarding. ![]() ![]() It wasn't the book I wanted it to be, but I loved it even more for telling its own story, instead of the one I had in my head as I began.Ī beautiful and generous book. ![]()
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