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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

Two Takes on Religion and Politics

Life On the Fringes by Haviva Ner-David

Take This Bread by Sara Miles

September 25, 2023 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

                                                        CBR15Bingo: Politics (feminism, inter-community politics, personal politics) Both of these texts engage with what religion means to the writer and how they engage with their religious communities with a more radical and transformative mindset. Reading them in close succession was an interesting look into how feminist, progressive religious women struggle to find their place within structured organizations. However, they are coming from two very different faith traditions and two very different personalities as well. As someone who reacts strongly with the personality of the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Religion Tagged With: #memoir, cbr15bingo, feminism, halacha, Haviva Ner-David, Judaism, Othodox Judaism, Sara Miles

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:45 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Religion · Tags: #memoir, cbr15bingo, feminism, halacha, Haviva Ner-David, Judaism, Othodox Judaism, Sara Miles ·
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A side of faith I never considered.

July 28, 2015 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I’ve been reading books about faith from people of other faiths, and it’s been such a worthwhile experience for me. Both Nadia Bolz-Weber and Rachel Held Evans referenced Sara Miles’ book Take This Bread, and that was reason enough. But in a Facebook conversation, my dear friend RLG recommended it to me as one of the key texts she’d been reading in her new position as Formation Minister at her Episcopal Church. I was on board. I am so glad I followed her recommendation. Sara […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, faith, Sara Miles

bonnie's CBR7 Review No:147 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: bonnie, faith, Sara Miles ·
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