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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…