Nora Gallagher
Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author
Member Since
August 2014
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Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith
7 editions
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1998
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Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace
7 editions
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2003
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Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
13 editions
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published
2013
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The Sacred Meal (The Ancient Practices Series)
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9 editions
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2009
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Changing Light: A Novel
3 editions
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published
2007
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Patagonia: Notes from the Field
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2 editions
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1999
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Accompany Me: A Life in Vulnerability and Faith
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Simple Pleasures
2 editions
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1981
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How to Stop a Sentence and Other Methods of Managing Words: A Basic Guide to Punctuation
5 editions
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published
1984
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Parlor games
2 editions
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1979
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“Doubt is to me the handmaiden to faith, its cop, the one that keeps faith straight. To doubt is an indication of freedom and a guard against fanaticism.”
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“What I want from the church, or any faith community, I see now, is a look between human beings that says we are knitted together, standing in a circle, holding each other up, waiting for the next ax to fall, rather than persons following a crowned Jesus, believing in an oppressive creed and tinny, false hope. That "religion" is about wanting the thing to last forever and make the pain go away. The reality is, instead, more about Jesus kneeling in the dust making a paste of spit and dirt. The reality is much more raw.”
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“Every person was a mystery […] It was as if each of us had another, deeper life than the one being lived. It lies underneath our ordinary days, our errands, the doing of dishes, the writing of letters, the making of money, like something moving, lobster-like, underwater. This only partially understood life (refused, often; banished, easily ignored) might be what we call the soul. The desire to know about it causes us to pray. But all the while, it’s moving toward something, as surely as we are advancing in our lives, through careers, marriage, children. Every now and then, this hidden life surfaces, as if to enact itself, to bring something to fulfillment. Often, this happens when it intersects with another’s […] it was like a glimpse of things in that peculiar, vivid light after a rain.”
― Changing Light: A Novel
― Changing Light: A Novel