Enduring Lives: Portraits of Women and Faith in Action

by Carol Lee Flinders

A companion volume to Enduring Grace profiles contemporary women who have dedicated their lives to improving the world, including scientist and environmentalist Jane Goodall, Jewish intellectual and Auschwitz survivor Etty Hillesum, and death-row inmate spiritual counselor Sister Helen Prejean. 20,000 first printing.

Genres: Spirituality, Womens

368 pages, Hardcover

First published May 18, 2006

About the author

Dr. Carol Lee Flinders is an author and former vegetarian food writer/syndicated columnist. She is best known as one of the three authors of the vegetarian cookbook
Laurel's Kitchen along with Laurel Robertson and Bronwen Godfrey. She also wrote the syndicated news column "Laurel's Kitchen" based on the cookbook. She wrote a weekly syndicated column called “Laurel’s Kitchen” for a number of years.

Beginning in the late 1980s, Flinders began writing about spirituality. She was a lecturer in spirituality at Holy Names College in Oakland, California.

Reviews

[Lyndi Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another delicious book by Carol Lee Flinders, focused on four amazing spiritual warriors: Jane Goodall, Holocaust victim Etty Hillesum, Tibetean Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo and activist Sister Helen Prejean. Truly inspiring stories! the first section on Hillesum didn't resonate, so my my progress was slow. Then, as it moved into the other 3, I got 100% on board and couldn't put the book down. Thank you Carol!

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Four stories of wonderful women.

[Jodi Crubaugh]

Love love love these women!

[Kateri Ewing · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the third book I have read by Flinders, and once again I found her subjects riveting. I don't always agree with the author's views or reasoning, the points she tries to make and threads she attaches between the subjects of this book and women mystics from her previous book, but I am grateful to know more about the four amazing modern day women that she writes about here. Jane Goodall, Etty Hillesun, Helen Prejean and Tenzin Palmo are all fascinating to know more about, and this book makes me want to now go to the sources and immerse myself in the original works of these great thinkers. Incredibly inspiring.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book!

[Amy Lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was Flinders book that first turned me on to Etty Hillesum and it was well worth the read for that alone.

[Linda Albert Young · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vividly inspirational