Practicing Resurrection: A PeaceBang Review

I’m actually getting a little tired of the spiritual memoir genre — probably because I’ve read one too many this year. Nevertheless, I picked up Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, And Moments of Grace by Nora Gallagher at the Festival of Homiletics and started reading it on the plane. It was an easy and interesting read, well-written and very moving at times. Gallagher isn’t an author who seems desperately, hell bent on making you fall in love with her and after suffering through works by the likes of Elizabeth Eat, Pray, Love Gilbert (which you may recall I retitled Whine, Brag, F***) and Anne Lamott, that’s a quality I can appreciate in a spiritual memoirist.
This is the story of Gallagher’s struggle with whether or not to become an Episcopal priest. It begins with the death of her brother Kit and takes her through a […]