Things Seen and Unseen

A Year Lived in Faith

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Things Seen and Unseen

A Year Lived in Faith

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"In the late eighties, Nora Gallagher entered Trinity Episcopal Church as a tourist and ended up a pilgrim. What she wanted was peace, she thought. What she got was something entirely different. In this remarkable book she describes her journey from secular life into "the world of the almost known," the world of faith.".

"With her piercing powers of observation focused inward on herself and outward on her community, Nora Gallagher takes us into a year of her own spiritual searching and into the life of a parish church. During this year, Gallagher struggles with faith in the midst of community, a fatal illness in her family, guests in the church soup kitchen, and the efforts of a priest who is a gay man and the church's vestry to decide whether he should be called as their rector.".

"As Gallagher sits with a friend dying of AIDS and another with cancer, serves communion wine at the altar, locates buckets for the Holy Week foot washing, and copes with homeless men and women and their critics, we learn with her that "the road to the sacred is paved with the ordinary."" "In the generous language of uncertainty, suffering, grace, and commitment, Gallagher writes of faith and its meaning and the need for ritual and sacrament."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Vintage
Language
English
Pages
256

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Cover of: Things Seen and Unseen
Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith
December 7, 1999, Vintage
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Things seen and unseen: a year lived in faith
1998, A.A. Knopf
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First Sentence

"HERE I AM in an empty church."

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
7.7 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
Weight
8 ounces

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Open Library
OL7701135M
ISBN 10
0679775498
ISBN 13
9780679775492
OCLC/WorldCat
43478813
Library Thing
240038
Goodreads
331947

First Sentence

"HERE I AM in an empty church."

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