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Flunking Sainthood By Jana Riess

Flunking Sainthood

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

by Jana Riess

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Flunking Sainthood

This wry, highly entertaining memoir covers 12 different spiritual practices in a madcap quest to become more saintly. Throughout the pages of Flunking Sainthood, Jana Riess demonstrates fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping and generosity.

Initially, she’s entirely certain she’ll succeed. “Really, how hard can that be?” she asks at the beginning of her saint-making year. She soon comes to realize that she’s totally failing at each and every one of her exercises. What emerges from her experiment is a funny yet highly personal story of the quest for spiritual perfection, and the reality of spiritual failure. Of course, it turns out that that’s a highly valuable practice in and of itself.

Softcover Book : 192 pages

Publisher: Paraclete Press ( November 01, 2011 )

Item #: 13-468162

ISBN: 9781557256607

Product Dimensions: 5.375 x 8.0 x 0.48inches

Product Weight: 6.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Not what expected
February 12, 2012

Too Judeo-Christian based. Read a couple of chapters and then threw it away.

Reviewer: Reader-sd

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