Memories and Finding Faith+[Rachel Held Evans—In Memoriam]
The older I’ve become at this blogging game, the more I drift into recording my memories.
Last week, I visited an online site offering a four-week course in “Writing A Personal Essay.” In my explorations, the presenter of the class referred to the book, Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Memoir Writing, by Natalie Goldberg. (New York: Atria Press [Simon & Schuster Free Press], 2009).
I made an instantaneous shift from exploring a course offering to finding Goldberg’s book that I’d scanned almost a decade ago, and I hustled to amazon.com to buy a paperback copy.
If you revisit this site, expect to find more memoirs as my memory takes me back again and again to my journey toward faith at ease.
In Memoriam:
Last week, a fine cataloger of the journey of faith seeking ease died. Rachel Held Evans was 37 years old and the mother of a three-year-old and one-year-old. Her books contain much about the struggles and blessings of the faith-journey from fundamentalism to love.
As one who has traveled a similar path to loving Jesus and my neighbors, I feel I can offer nothing better than a recommendation that you read Rachel’s books and blog.
This link will take you to her books:
Her blog is at:
https://rachelheldevans.com/blog
–the posting of “Rachel’s Health Updates,” a record of her battle with a deadly infection, is written by her husband, Daniel Evans.
Rachel died early Saturday morning, May 4, 2019.
March 22nd, 2020 at 12:24 am
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