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Storming Heaven's Gate: An Anthology of Spiritual Writings by Women |
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This is the kind of book you want to carry in your bag and read at respites on buses or in coffee shops, letting it roll around in your brain, seep into your soul. Poems and short essays--such as Mary Karr's quest for a church in which her son could, in his words, "see if God's there," and Nancy Mair's coming to understand charity and mercy at the soup kitchen Casa Maria--sparkle with the sincerity of each writer's search for spiritual fulfillment. Because religion is personal, and because few people grow up with exposure to more than one or two faiths, there is seldom opportunity to discuss the wide varieties of spirituality that are out there. In Storming Heaven's Gate, 61 women authors come clean with their stories--Kathleen Norris's time in a Benedictine monastery, Daa'iyah Taha's journey to Mecca--and it all comes off like late-night coffee shop talk, with the reader sipping quietly, soaking it all in. Men welcome also.
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