Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace
- ISBN-10
- 0375705635
- ISBN-13
- 9780375705632
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Nora Gallagher
Description
The author of Things Seen and Unseen describes how the death of her beloved brother, Kit, prompted a spiritual crisis and the redemptive, harrowing, and unsettling process of discovery as she reexamined her marriage, work as a writer, the natural world, vocation, and a call to a deeper purpose. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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