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In the Beginning
Karen Armstrong is one of my favorite authors. So I was excited at the prospect of getting into her “interpretation” of Genesis. In The Beginning. Ordinarily Armstrong is an accessible writer about issues of religion. This book made me just a little confused and angry. Problem, the book doesn’t seem to know exactly what it is. It is not so much an interpretation of Genesis as a meditation of the fallenness of humankind, seen through the lens…
IN SEARCH OF BELIEF by Joan Chittister
Challenging interpretations of The Apostle’s Creed I found In Search of Belief both interesting and challenging. The author takes the Apostle’s Creed and phrase-by-phrase writes a commentary on it. Each chapter stands alone. I found the phrase, “… born of the Virgin Mary” very interesting and full of new, to me, material. The book will cause me to think a little differently now as I recite the creed. It’s well written and easy to read. I highly recommend it. Reviewed by…