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Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
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| A very readable introduction to the various arguments surrounding women in leadership in the church. I've been able to recommend this book to many who want to begin their journey unpacking this topic. ...more | |
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| An excellent overview of Appalachian dance traditions, but more importantly a cultural history of the region and how folklorists have approached it. | |
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| The narrative alongside photographs and visual cultural artifacts really make this book a lovely read. | |
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| This was required reading for a Sustainable Development class I am taking. Helpful introduction to the concept and terminology. | |
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| A wonderful cultural artifact of Appalachia | |
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| A profoundly moving story about grace and acceptance. Might be in my top 5 books of all time. | |
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| An important and necessary read, especially for a generation that is increasingly untethered to land and physical space. A wonderful primer on the theology of place and a history of how America tells stories about place. | |
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| One of the best books I've read this year. Sara perfectly describes the experience of anxiety, and offers not only solidarity but words of wisdom to guide you through. A must read. ...more | |
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| The Gospel presented here is indeed good news for the self-righteous and shame-filled alike. Whether you are new to the Scriptures or a life-long student, this book closely examines some of our most entrenched assumptions about God, illuminating the ...more | |
“Our inclination to explain away suffering is an indication of how reticent we are to simply lament as a society, to admit our weakness. When our understandings of cause and effect, control, and reciprocity are all disrupted, it's humbling. Bewilderment is an experience we aren't accustomed to in our culture. But this humiliation and bewilderment are at the heart of the death wail. They are the ingredients of grief. Death is humiliating. It's mortifying. It's incomprehensible. So many of the psalms of lament begin with the question, 'Why?' And there isn't always an answer.”
― A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing
― A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing
“Sometimes we have to allow grief to have its way with us for a while. We need to get lost in the landscape of grief. It is a wild and rugged wilderness terrain to be sure, but it is here that we meet our truest selves. And we are met by God. The wilderness makes no space for pretense or facade. The language of platitudes and trite niceties are of no use to us in the wilderness. In the wilderness, we speak what is primitive and primary. We say what is true. We say what is hard and heartbreaking. We wail.”
― A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing
― A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing
“The death wail is unsophisticated. It is not curated. It cares not what others think of it, and it has no desire for an interpreter. It is a language meant not for communication but rather for expelling the darkness. When it breaks free, one loses all sense of propriety and performance. The wailer slips into a world of inconsequence, succumbing to the sorrow and finally expressing with unbridled veracity what is true and real about all that is being experienced: I am destroyed.”
― A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing
― A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing
