Wisdom in the Waiting: Spring's Sacred Days

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Loyola Press, 2004 - 130 pages
In her three-book series that spans the liturgical year, renowned author Phyllis Tickle recalls simple stories from life on her family's farm in Lucy, Tennessee. In these spiritually uplifting and nostalgic memoirs, Tickle records the richness of faith in everyday life. What the Land Already Knows celebrates Advent, Christmas, and the Epiphany. Wisdom in the Waiting reflects on Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. The Graces We Remember provides tales from the end of Pentecost to the beginning of Advent.
 

Table des matières

No Palms in My Purse
1
Mardi Gras and Other Portals into Mystery
15
Of Swallowtails in Particular
29
Watching and Waiting
41
Final Sanity
47
On Just Such a Morning
53
The Bleeding Birds
57
Runaway Son
67
Garden Myths
83
Father and Son
93
Through the Veil Torn
101
Patron Saints and a Story of Grief
105
Dance of the Fireflies
111
Ascension Day
117
Epilogue
125
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À propos de l'auteur (2004)

Phyllis Tickle was born on March 12, 1934. She received a B.A. from East Tennessee State University in 1955 and a M.A. from Furman University in 1961. She was best known for launching the religion section of Publishers Weekly in the early 1990s. She also wrote dozens of books on American religion and spirituality including Re-Discovering the Sacred: Spirituality in America, God-Talk in America, The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why, and The Age of the Spirit: How the Ghost of an Ancient Controversy Is Shaping the Church. She died months after being diagnosed with lung cancer on September 22, 2015 at the age of 81.

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