Flunking Sainthood

A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor

von Jana Riess

194 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success ("Really, how hard could that be?" she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing--not just at some of the practices, but at every single one. What emerges is a funny yet vulnerable story of the quest for spiritual perfection and the reality of spiritual failure, which turns out to be a valuable practice in and of itself.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein Religion und Spirituelles
• ISBN: 9781557256607
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2011
• Größe: 203 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Paraclete Press