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A woman chronicles her long journey back to Christianity.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19980916
Author:Siers, Jean Blish

``Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith,'' By Kathleen Norris; Riverhead (384 pages, $24.95).

In Amazing Grace, award-winning poet and memoirist Kathleen Norris explores her growth within the Christian faith through her understanding of the Christian lexicon: from heaven to hell, fear to faith, incarnation to eschatology. Her essays _ each a brief reflection on a specific word _ are filled with humor, insight and a spirit of openness and inclusivity that is rare in ``religious'' writing.

Norris' journey back to Christianity began more than 20 years ago, when she and ...

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