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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Jana Riess is so like the rest of us that struggle with deepening our spirituality and relationship with God.
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Her information regarding various spiritual practices is accurate, well explained and encourages one to try the practice. Then, Jana, like most of us falls far from perfection. I wouldn't say she fails as she learns and grows in her walk in faith. She just doesn't reach perfection.
Flunking Sainthood is light, funny, serious, educational and most of all loving. I recommend it highly for any woman. Thoroughly enjoyed this one. It's blog-like in terms of voice and structure, and more about the author's personal journey than the doctrinal behaviors she put into practice than anything else. I would have liked more of the background of the customs such as the Muslims' fast and Christian's hourly prayers , but all the source material is cited.
This is a fun book. Riess' self-depracating sense of humor as she tries out some of the most ubiquitous religious practices--fasting, prayer, gratitude, etc. Her honesty and wit are refreshing. I'm left feeling like I'm not the only one who struggles yet maintains a desire to have faith.
Flunking Sainthood provides many spiritual insights while not getting too heavy. Definitely worth the read! Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Like reading several long related blog posts. Jana Riess is funny and endearingly self-critical. It just felt a little gimmicky to me, and, as she admitted, there was no particular moral other than the vague sense that the effort brought her closer to God and prepared her for the challenges ahead. While I struggled through the first few chapters of this book, the writer grew on me as it proceeded.
Her applications of the spiritual disciplines were real life, probably how I would deal with them with complaining and failing! She got into a groove as the year went on, and I really enjoyed the last few chapters, especially the ones on Sabbath and giving. One person found this helpful. I was not in agreement in everything that Jana concluded as she wound her way around her spiritual journey, but I found many good nuggets of thought and even a few revelations in her book.
Jana Riess is readable and not at all sanctimonious or churchy. What she finds as she tries to practice the tenets of several different religious cultures is well worth knowing. I could not put this book down! It is amazingly honest and well-written. The author has a fantastic sense of humor. It is good to know that others struggle with spiritual disciplines, and aren't afraid to say so.
I intend to recommend this book to many of my colleagues and friends. I look forward to reading Jana's next book. Let me say from the start, that this is a great read and a fun book. Jana has the ability to put into words experiences better than most and think she would summarize all of her learning in this approach as "Love your neighbor as yourself" is a way to get closer to God.
The Epilogue where she forgives her dying father who abandoned the family when he was a child, is most touching. For her "works and faith" are one in the same. She outlines a number of "spiritual" practices in which she eventually fails at every one of them. She names 12 in the prologue, but I can only count Cooking and repetitive while practicing the Presence of God - she has to make up for fasting 3. Reading and Prayer 4. Practice a Jewish Sabbath 7. Attitude of Gratitude with rules 8. Don't eat meat Recite the Jesus Prayer 5 times a day Charity - the financial kind As I read her book I find myself laughing on almost every page.
She has a way of looking at her world that is very funny, especially the way she expresses it. If laughing is spiritual, and I believe all things are spiritual, especially laughter, then this is a very spiritual book. Some of her funny quotes: But Jesus seems less abstract, more accessible.
I like the idea of him pulling up a barstool to the laminate countertop and listening to me prattle on about my day. His head would be cocked slightly to the right, an eyebrow occasionally raised in interest. He would be gratefully eat a sample of cookie dough, because the Son of Man doesn't have to worry about getting salmonella from raw eggs" "Lawrence, I am realizing, could be the patron saint of the s American housewife, if he only wielded a Sunbeam blender and donned a chinz apron over his cassock.
You still have nine others. Jesus was hardly a killjoy.
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A genuine hospitality opportunity. When Shay dollop's Patches off, she confesses that the dog recently got into her son's medication and has been having a touch of diarrhea. And I believe her, because Shay is a doctor, and doctors wouldn't minimize symptoms like diarrhea. Patches turns out to be a pooping machine. I'm just calling it fixed-hour prayer because "office" sounds bureaucratic. Although Phyllis mentions becoming an "attendant" for God, this feels a bit secretarial, and God can fetch his own cup of coffee.
The more assured we are with ourselves, the less assurance we will need from things outside us. Surprisingly, the religions that claim the happiest people are those that make some of the decisions for you by removing certain choices; the unhappiest people belonged to the most open minded and tolerant faiths. Reform Jews and Unitarians were the most susceptible to depression, while fundamentalists faced adversity with optimism and experienced greater hope. It turns out that limits are often very good things.
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Place yourself in the presence of Christ. Don't wear yourself out thinking. Simply speak with your Beloved.