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Great book!
Nora:
I purchased your book several weeks ago and have thoroughly been enjoying it! We are on similar paths as I too seek, "What's next for me in my spiritual growth?" I was also raised an Episcopalian so I identify with the ritual and significance in the ancient sacraments. And I am a writer too working on my own book about inner peace.
I see my coaching colleague, Jeniifer Louden, also loves your book and generally her taste is similar to mine. She is right on .. this is a delightful, warm story. Thank you for witing it and encouraging us all to keep practicing our own resurrections.
Warmly, Beth Burns www.brightsidecoaching.com
Wonderful! Deep, mesmerizing, told in luminous prose. Right up there with Alice Sebold! Sarah B.
I am reading Practicing Resurrection right now and every page is like reading a deeply life changing sermon. I have to go slow, allow myself to fully take in all that's packed into each word, each sentence. Like her previous book, Things Seen and Unseen, this book is, for me, gorged with grace.
Lenora Rand
Dearest Nora,
Your words and your being are a blessing in my life...
All my love,
Cia
I haven't read the book yet but I can't wait to! Nora, that is such a damn adorable picture of you! IT was so great to see you and your enormous entourage of friends and family recently. A fun evening and a beautiful reading. love, Delia
Hi Nora! I love the new website design, but even better is the new book! I recommended it to everyone in my discernment group as a definite aid to not only making it through, but also making it worthwhile. Well done, good and faithful writer! -Todd
Nora - I , too,have been searching for the expansion of the'priesthood of the laity' in my role for the last 13 years as a Parish Nurse in the United Methodist Church in Iowa. I am in team ministry with pastors and laity to provide health care to the congregation and beyond. I just finished your book in this Holy Week and really appreciate the gifts of hope and metaphor throughout the book! I will be praying and journaling about practicing resurrection in the coming weeks! We just referred to parts of your book during our women's retreat last weekend! Know that you are reaching the eyes of our hearts in Iowa! God's peace! Carol Tippe tippe.carol@mcleodusa.net
yes, I have read it. I wanted to savor it for Lent - well that didn't work - couldn't put it down - I loved A Year Lived in Faith - this topped that. Thank you for your voice. Carla Pineda
The voice of storyteller, Nora Gallagher is so compelling, so wise and warm and funny, that this book about the serious issues that occupy us all (vocation, faith, marriage, death, the sacred in the natural world, to name a few) reads like a story you can't put down. Quite simply, it delivers all the pleasure of a great read about things that matter deeply.
--Reader in Carpinteria, California
Nora Gallagher's openness and intellectual acuity in Practicing Resurrection are a gift, and we follow her more than willingly on her journey of discernment. This is a book for everyone who wants to live an examined life, regardless of their religious persuasion or belief. We laugh, we cry, and all along we keep turning the pages because she is also a terrific story teller.
Andra Lichtenstein, Berkeley, California
Hi Nora - enjoyed your talk at EDS. Very inspiring - Had meant to ask where you were going to seminary. Wish you well - enjoyed your comments on discernment. Wishing you well on your continuing journey. Arthur M. Turner
Such a warm, compassionate and deeply felt book that is inspiring and real. Many blessings and thank you for sharing this with us.
Liz Williams Santa Barbara, CA
Brillant! Your words speak rich truths without apology, without posturing. Refreshing are you Nora! I've just inhaled your stream of generosity and now I notice you've just provided me with a resurrecting gift in my process of growth as an innovator in spiritual health education with your seemless arrangement of words and thoughts. Many blessings and gratitudes to you. I will tell many others of your special story. Constance McClain, Santa Barbara movingrace@hotmail.com
We enjoyed visiting your site! Steve, Jim, Laurie, and Sarah
I have just completed reading your book, Practicing Resurrection. WOW......I thought you were writing about me! I am a second year student at Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, TX and am in the ministry candidacy process with the Methodist church. I cannot thank you enough for writing this book. blessings to you, Pam Traver, Fredericksburg, Texas
Dear Nora - I read "Things Seen and Unseen" less than a month ago and finished "Practicing Resurrection" at 4:30 this morning. I cried for an hour. I'm still stunned and will always be grateful that you could lovingly and clearly lay out what so many of us are struggling with. A copy of "Living on the Border of the Holy" has been sitting on my shelf for over a year. I think I now have the courage to read it. And maybe now I can think about starting a discernment committee and feel OK when I say that - at least for now - I want to explore my vocation as a strong and pro-active member of the laity. Thank you so much for sharing. It sounds so trite, but you'll never know how many lives you are touching. Peace - Kit Allgood-Mellema ppureheart@gci.net (Do you have plans to come to Alaska on your travels? There are many of us who would love to hear you speak.)
I am thrilled to see that Nora has a presence on the Internet. I actually have not read Practicing Resurrection yet but I'm anxiously awaiting my copy from Amazon. <u> Things Seen and Unseen </u> has impacted my life and my own journey tremendously before and during my process towards ordination as an Episcopal priest. I am teaching from the book during Epiphany and intend to lead more adult Christian education programs from <u> Practicing Resurrection </u> during Easter. Godspeed and Grace to Nora throughout Christmas-Tide and 2004 Jim Strader Grace St. Paul's Church - Tucson, AZ
I love ur site . Guy man.
Dearest daughter (I drop the in-law part) Nora, How very fortunate Vincent and I are to have you in our lives. You are indeed a treasured gift. Practising Resurection got to me even more than Things Seen and Unseen. Your writing brought feelings welling up in me until the tears almost (male-conditioning) got through. These sensations were in a way quite scary, and brought on boughts of introspection. Consciously or otherwise this disturbing shaking-up of feelings is part of the universal connection with which you come through in your writing. You are awfully good at that (maybe too good for my complacency.) With grateful love--Mat
I loved this book. I read it while in the midst of my own discernment process for ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church and found that "Practicing Resurrection" resounds with truth. I love the depth of her thinking and her willingness to be vulnerable and so honest in her writing. Thank You. Peter Carey petermcarey@yahoo.com
I loved this book. I read it while in the midst of my own discernment process for ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church and found that "Practicing Resurrection" resounds with truth. I love the depth of her thinking and her willingness to be vulnerable and so honest in her writing. Thank You. Peter Carey petermcarey@yahoo.com
Hi Nora, I haven't read your books -- yet. Hmm. Why am I not surprised? Could it be, if you believe it (and why not?) that I remember 1979? But that's enough for a posted note, except to add that what got me here was chancing upon a drawing of a barefoot reporter sitting on a desk in the Hall of Justice. Great feet. Francis <moriarty@netvigator.com>
Nora, Both of your books are a breath of fresh air. As a Lutheran Pastor who loves to hear the story about God working in our lives... yours is wonderful. Not stuffy. Not overly religous. So incredible. So real. A friend of mine, when I lent her your first book, read it seven times. It spoke to her that much. Your gift, your calling is a ministry to us all. John Stevens Resurrection Lutheran Church Juneau, AK
Finished your book a few minutes ago. Amazing. I am greatful for your gift. Blesings, Carlos Estrada