But for those Christians willing to enter into discomfort for the sake of living like Christ, this book is much needed. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. 8 Hours and 5 Minutes There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. People Get Ready is not a comfortable book for those who wish to stay comfortable. Books similar to Saints and Misfits Saints and Misfits. Yet in the past three years, we have discovered the racism she expressed throughout personal correspondence and journals that lasted until the day of her death.Įditor Jacqueline Bussie asks us to grapple with this side of O'Connor's life alongside the fiction - and to ask ourselves what we mean when we say we believe in the power of God's grace. For many years O'Connor was lauded as one of the great modern Catholic writers, a woman whose fiction overturned Southern notions of race and envisioned a world where the kingdom of God is fully realized. Take, for example, the profile of Catholic author Flannery O'Connor. Each of the figures profiled in People Get Ready will challenge the assumptions we have about what it means to be a faithful, orthodox Christian. The discomfort felt in reading about Klunder is not unique in this book. Klunder's story, as essay author Carolyn Renée Dupont notes, is "lacking in moral vindication devoid of triumph - a narrative that peters out rather than explodes in a blaze of glorious victory." His story begs the question: Does the God of Jesus Christ want measurable outcomes, or is God asking instead for unflinching faithfulness?
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