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by Jana Riess

Can an ordinary 21st-century American become a saint? No, apparently not. Butyou can have a lot of fun trying.


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This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success ("Really, how hard could that be?" she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing--not just at some of the practices, but at every single one. What emerges is a funny yet vulnerable story of the quest for spiritual perfection and the reality of spiritual failure, which turns out to be a valuable practice in and of itself.

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  • Title Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
  • Author Jana Riess
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 59713th
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Paraclete Press (MA), Brewster, Mass
  • Date 2011-11-01
  • ISBN 9781557256607 / 1557256608
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Spiritual biography, Spiritual life - Christianity
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011022595
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/01/2011, Page 6
  • Christian Century, 11/15/2011, Page 42
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/12/2011, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/07/2011, Page 36

About the author

Since 2008, Jana Riess has been an editor in the publishing industry, primarily working in the areas of religion, history, popular culture, ethics, and biblical studies. From 1999 to 2008, she was the Religion Book Review Editor for Publishers Weekly, and continues to write freelance reviews for PW as well as other publications. She holds degrees in religion from Wellesley College and Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in American religious history from Columbia University. She speaks often to media about issues pertaining to religion in America, and has been interviewed by the Associated Press, Time, Newsweek, People, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and Newsday, among other print publications, as well as "Voice of America," the "Today" show, MSNBC, and NPR's "All Things Considered," "Tell Me More," and "Talk of the Nation." She is the author or co-author of many books, including The Prayer Wheel; Flunking Sainthood; What Would Buffy Do?; Mormonism for Dummies; and The Writer's Market Guide to Getting Published, andThe Next Mormons: The Rising Generation of Latter-day Saints. Her book The Twible: All the Chapters of the Bible in 140 Characters or Less . . . . Now with 68% More Humor! won first place in the non-fiction category in the Writer's Digest Annual Self-Published Book Awards. She is a senior columnist for Religion News Service.
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