Carolyn Weber
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Surprised by Oxford
7 editions
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2011
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Holy Is the Day: Living in the Gift of the Present
6 editions
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2013
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Sex and the City of God: A Memoir of Love and Longing
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Home Going: Poetry for a Season
4 editions
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2015
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True North: Thirteen Poems
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2012
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Summering: Poetry Under the Sun
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2012
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As Reality Dawns
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Surprised by Oxford: A Memoir
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Romanticism And Parenting: Image, Instruction And Ideology
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2007
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Integrating Inquiry in Social Studies Classrooms
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“Dr. Deveaux stopped and looked at me hard. He leaned in and whispered, 'The rest is all bullshit, Miss Drake. It's as simple as that. Your purpose here in life is to discern the real thing from the bullshit, and then to choose the non-bullshit. Think of the opportunity that God has given you to study as the means by which to attain your own personal bullshit detector. Sometimes that will be particularly difficult, because those who proclaim to know the truth, well intentioned or not, are spewing the most bullshit. But you will know when you have been properly ravished. And then you'll see, how the entire world is eyeball deep in it and that we choose it, and that we choose it every day. But the good news is that, although we struggle with it, there is a way out. Yes, there is a very worthy antidote and option to all the bullshit.”
― Surprised by Oxford
― Surprised by Oxford
“There is nothing more powerful, more radical, more transformational than love. No other substance or force. And do not be deceived, for it is all of these things, and then far more than that. It can't be circumscribed by our desires or dictated by the whim of our moods. Not the Great Love of the Universe, as I like to call it. Not the Love that set everything in motion, keeps it in motion, which moves through all things and yet bulldozes nothing, not even our will. Try it. Just try it and you'll see. If you love that Great Love first, because It loved you first, and then love yourself as you have been loved, and love others from that love...WOW! BAM! Life without that kind of faith-that's death. Therein lies the great metaphor...Life without faith IS death. For life, as it was intended to be, is love. Start loving and you'll really start living. There is no other force in the universe comparable to that.”
― Surprised by Oxford
― Surprised by Oxford

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