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The Girl Got Up: A Cruciform Memoir
The Girl Got Up is a new kind of spiritual memoir. Blending personal narrative with scriptural insight, an artful style with rigorous exegesis, Rachel Srubas connects stories from her own experience with particular women or themes of the Bible. What results are shining new insights into the nature of childhood, spiritual awakening, sexuality, sin, love, marriage, geographic relocation, scapegoating, Christian compassion, gender politics in the church, the proclamation of Christ's resurrection, and more.
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126 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2013
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August 10, 2023
The author offered a very authentic story of spiritual discovery and a journey that is on-going. This book is full of wisdom on the theme of crucifixion and resurrection and the struggle of women in general. I loved the poetry. There were times when I struggled with some of the prose and had to re-read sentences to completely understand. I think it was a style that I was not 100% comfortable with.
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August 2, 2023I cannot, in good faith, "rate" this book...I feel is has to be read several times, once through, then again, more slowly...there is so much in the book and one can reap from it in multiple readings, at multiple times.
As the saying goes, Every book has its reader...and the reader may be the same person, but a different reader.
As the saying goes, Every book has its reader...and the reader may be the same person, but a different reader.
November 6, 2015
"And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about . . .
At this they were overcome with amazement." (Mark 5:42)
The Girl Got Up is a spiritual memoir, or as Rachel Srubas says, "retrospection with an eye toward the eternal." Though it is, to be sure, a resurrection memoir, it is also heartbreakingly cruciform. Srubas refuses to recount her getting up before an honest account of being brought low, of the breaking of her spirit.
Blending personal narrative with scriptural wisdom, she offers shining new insights into the nature of childhood, spiritual awakening, sexuality, sin, love, marriage, scapegoating, Christian compassion, the proclamation of Christ's resurrection, and more.
No pious abstractions or 'how-to' cheeriness here. Srubas faces life with a striking blend of realism, intelligence, and steely faith. The Girl Got Up is a unique testament to the God who grants us freedom, lets us fail, and yet never fails to raise us up . - backcover
*
A deep, personally vulnerable account of Rachel's journey of life and faith. A gift offered with open hands and, I'm sure, not without personal cost. Filled with abundant food for thought, the stories impact both emotions and theology.
Rachel leads us through her early childhood, the impact of parents and their decisions on her growth and maturation, then into the consequences of those decisions played out in her own adult life. Time spent in the cultural freedom of Paris with her mother playing a game of love - with the sights, sounds, and realities experienced by a young girl left too early on her own in a grownup world.
Having met Rachel, I am in awe of the handiwork of the Master Artisan. 'Behold, I make all things new'... And that new life is impacting and influencing others with words that inspirit life. Myself included.
I am intrigued. And I have been sincerely blessed by Rachel's sharing openly of all that's gone before the wonder of who she has become.
Rachel was one of my instructors at the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction. I have been delighted to read this lovely autographed copy. Thank you, Rachel! For the classes, the writing exercises, and the opportunity to meet you both in person and in the pages of this unique memoir. I am a better person for them.
At this they were overcome with amazement." (Mark 5:42)
The Girl Got Up is a spiritual memoir, or as Rachel Srubas says, "retrospection with an eye toward the eternal." Though it is, to be sure, a resurrection memoir, it is also heartbreakingly cruciform. Srubas refuses to recount her getting up before an honest account of being brought low, of the breaking of her spirit.
Blending personal narrative with scriptural wisdom, she offers shining new insights into the nature of childhood, spiritual awakening, sexuality, sin, love, marriage, scapegoating, Christian compassion, the proclamation of Christ's resurrection, and more.
No pious abstractions or 'how-to' cheeriness here. Srubas faces life with a striking blend of realism, intelligence, and steely faith. The Girl Got Up is a unique testament to the God who grants us freedom, lets us fail, and yet never fails to raise us up . - backcover
*
A deep, personally vulnerable account of Rachel's journey of life and faith. A gift offered with open hands and, I'm sure, not without personal cost. Filled with abundant food for thought, the stories impact both emotions and theology.
Rachel leads us through her early childhood, the impact of parents and their decisions on her growth and maturation, then into the consequences of those decisions played out in her own adult life. Time spent in the cultural freedom of Paris with her mother playing a game of love - with the sights, sounds, and realities experienced by a young girl left too early on her own in a grownup world.
Having met Rachel, I am in awe of the handiwork of the Master Artisan. 'Behold, I make all things new'... And that new life is impacting and influencing others with words that inspirit life. Myself included.
I am intrigued. And I have been sincerely blessed by Rachel's sharing openly of all that's gone before the wonder of who she has become.
Rachel was one of my instructors at the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction. I have been delighted to read this lovely autographed copy. Thank you, Rachel! For the classes, the writing exercises, and the opportunity to meet you both in person and in the pages of this unique memoir. I am a better person for them.
April 8, 2013
I've been recommending this to everyone -- it's come up in so many conversations this week. Full review at The Collegeville Institute next week. Wish it was longer.... Her voice is so fascinating; her story, so familiar and so unique.
March 12, 2013
Excellent.
May 17, 2013
A cross between Phyllis Trible and Mary Karr. In other words, exegesis and memoir, economically written.
August 1, 2013
I think I was tired when I read this book and should have liked it more than I did. Certainly she writes well and her theology is straight-up. I just didn't find it compelling.
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