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Charting a journey back to faith

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19980503
Author:JO SANDIN

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. By Kathleen Norris. Riverhead Books. 400 pages. $24.95.

Kathleen Norris' personal story is hardly uncommon.

For countless centuries, countless believers have abandoned their childhood's faith as irrelevant to adult life only to rediscover it later as the dimension that makes life possible and desirable. Still, though the road home may be rutted and worn with frequent travel, each individual's experience of it is as unique as the doubts that shook the soul along the way. With a poet such as Norris wielding the words, this chronicle of one woman's journey ...

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