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Leah Libresco

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I grew up as an atheist on Long Island. When I went to college, I picked fights with the most interesting wrong people I could find — which turned out to be the campus Catholics.

After reading an awful lot of books, years of late-night debates (the kinds that tended to include sentences like “Ok, imagine for the moment that God is a cylinder…”), and a fair amount of blogging, I was surprised but pleased to find out that I’d been wrong about religion, generally, and Catholicism in particular, and I was received into the Catholic Church in the winter of 2012.

My first book, Arriving at Amen is a tour through seven Catholic prayer practices, all of which (as a convert) I had to pick up as I would a second language -- so I cobbled together a creo ...more

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Fraud and Restoration in The Christophers

I’ve been recommending The Christophers to everyone I see, and most of them haven’t heard of it. The movie is about an art restorer who is hired for a forgery job. The estranged children of a famous artist want to hire her to complete some of his unfinished paintings before he dies (without his knowledge) so they can sell them for millions. I loved it, and I wrote about it for Word on Fire.

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	Building the Benedict Option: A Guide to Gathering Two or Three Together in His Name by Leah Libresco (Goodreads Author), Rod Dreher (Foreword) 3.93 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arriving at Amen by Leah Libresco (Goodreads Author), Mark P. Shea (Introduction) 4.08 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto by Leah Libresco Sargeant, Leah Libresco (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 179 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ave Prayer Book for Catholic Mothers by Heidi Hess Saxton (Editor), Emily Wilson Hussem (Foreword), Jenna Guizar (Contributor) 4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plough Quarterly No. 37 – The Enemy: UK Edition by Benjamin Crosby, Archbishop Angaelos, Zena Hitz 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plough Quarterly No. 28 - Creatures: The Nature Issue by Peter Mommsen (Editor), Adam Nicolson (Contributor), John Kempf (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plough Quarterly No. 20 - The Welcome Table by Edwidge Danticat, Sarah Ruden, Daniel Larison 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plough Quarterly No. 26 – What Are Families For? by Ross Douthat, Edwidge Danticat, Sarah C. Williams 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again.”
― Leah Libresco

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“I wonder if Peter was chosen not for being the most perfect among the disciples (John is the beloved disciple to whom Christ entrusts his own mother) but for being the one who was most willing to bring his imperfections to God for correction.”
― Leah Libresco, Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers That Even I Can Offer

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“Once he is stuck, Peter doesn’t try to take charge and undo his mistake; he keeps flailing his way toward Christ. My prayer life often feels like this kind of thrashing in Christ’s general direction, waiting and trusting that he’ll reach across the gap I can’t close on my own.”
― Leah Libresco, Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers That Even I Can Offer

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