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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Study Guide

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by Anne Lamott
About 44 pages (13,149 words)

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Anne talks about her childhood at length. She is the child of atheists but likes it when she has the opportunity to attend church. She says she pretended church was foolish to please her father who was raised by missionaries in Tokyo and despised Christianity. Her mother sometimes attends midnight mass but Anne's opportunities to attend church are largely limited to when she goes with a Catholic friend or her grandparents. (read more)
      Overture: Lily Pads
      Part One, Mountain, Valley, Sky
      Part Two, Church, People, Steeple
      Part Three, Tribe
      Part Four, Kids, Some Sick
      Part Five, Body and Soul
      Part Six, Family
      Part Seven, Shore and Ground

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