Charissa’s Reviews > The Starving Saints > Status Update

“And what a balm those hymns are: predictable words, in predictable order, about how to find solace in an unpredictable world. The hymns preach order, measurement, constancy, when all the world is yet lost in chaos. To build a bed, a house, a nation is to create an anchor, something to hold on to.”


I’m highly atheist but something about living amongst nuns and in a convent has always intrigued me.