In his new book, "Saints As They Really Are," priest and scholar
Michael Plekon traces the spiritual journeys of several American
Christians, using their memoirs and other writings. These
"saints-in-the-making" show all their doubts and imperfections as
they reflect on their search for God and their efforts to lead holy
lives. They are gifted yet ordinary women and men trying to follow
Christ within their flawed and broken humanity--"saints as they
really are," as Dorothy Day put it."Saints As They Really Are" is
the third book in Plekon's critically acclaimed series on saints
and holiness in our time. He draws on the autobiographical work of
Dorothy Day, Peter Berger, Thomas Merton, Kathleen Norris, and
Barbara Brown Taylor, among others, as well as from his own
experiences as a Carmelite seminarian and brother. Plekon shares
the power of these individuals' stories as they unfold. The book
offers a strong argument that our failings and weaknesses are not
disqualifications to holiness. Plekon further confronts the
institutional church and its relationship to individuals seeking
God, focusing on some of the challenges to this search--the
destructive potential of religion and religious institutions, as
well as our personal tendencies to extremism, overwork, pious
obsessions, and legalism. But he also underscores the healing
qualities of faith and the spiritual life. Plekon's insights will
help readers better understand their own spiritual pilgrimages as
they learn how others have dealt with the trials and joys of their
path to everyday holiness. "This is the third in a progression of
books by Michael Plekon that have served to expand our
understanding of saints and holiness. In this new book, he has
taken yet a further step in relating holiness to ordinary or
everyday life by showing the contours of grace, or the harmonics of
holiness, revealed in the Christian journey of a number of
contemporary Christian memoirists. He shows how the gospel story of
death-resurrection is written in the journey of ordinary
Christians." --Robert Ellsberg, author of "All Saints "
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