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Jean’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jean’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Jean P. Kelly’s Followers (1)
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Jean P. Kelly
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Less Helping Them / More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice
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| An unusual format, but illustrations bring the incredible life and faith of this singular holy woman, alive. Historical context enhances, with scholarship, maps, and timelines | |
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Perpetually Seeking St. Perpetua’s Story Sarah Ruden’s Perpetua: The Woman. The Martyr introduced me to the life and prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, executed in Carthage with Felicity in 203 CE. Ruden promises a biography that “rescues” the saint from ...more |
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| St. Teresa of Avila has long been one of Christianity’s great teachers of prayer, yet this study edition revealed another dimension of her genius: her profound, practical understanding of love. With the help of a scholar formed in her own Carmelite t ...more | |
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| I’ve come to believe that any mature religious faith—one that endures across a lifetime—requires periodic struggles of conscience, a willingness to ask hard questions, and the deliberate choice to “stay.” If a Millennial religion journalist with a fr ...more | |
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Jean Kelly
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Mairwen Minson's review
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Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter:
"Wow. I needed this book. As a Catholic, as a young adult trying to live as a faithful believer while aware of too many things, as a woman struggling with institutions.
Thanks to the author and publisher for providing me with an ARC via NetGalley for a" Read more of this review » |
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Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter:
"telling myself I have to write a sincere review of this book instead of firing off something flippant* like 'Colleen for Pope'. this was a fascinating read, somehow both disheartening and heartening at the same time. the grief and frustration sparks "
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Learning from Italians how to savor life I’ve always found travel, whether alone or with others, transformative. Time away from my culture, my routine offers opportunities for reflection, spiritual growth, and new perspectives that stay with me even w ...more |
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