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Written with humor and personality, this debut memoir recounts a
woman's spiritual quest of experiencing thirty religions before her
thirtieth birthday. Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome is for
questioners, doubters, misfits, and seekers of all faiths, and
tackles the universal struggle to heal what life has broken.On her
twenty-ninth birthday, while guests were arriving downstairs, Reba
Riley was supposedly upstairs getting dressed. In actuality, she
was slumped on the floor sobbing about everything from the meaning
of life to the pile of dirty laundry on the floor. Life without God
was crashing in on her. And she was sick and tired of feeling sick
and tired. She uttered a desperate prayer, and then the idea came
to her--thirty by thirty. And thus she embarked on a year-long
quest to experience thirty religions by her thirtieth birthday.
During her spiritual sojourn, Riley: -Was interrogated about her
sex life by Amish grandmothers -Disco danced in a Buddhist temple
-Fasted for thirty days without food--or wine -Washed her lady
parts in a mosque bathroom -Was audited by Scientologists -Learned
to meditate with an urban monk -Snuck into a Yom Kippur service
with a fake grandpa in tow -And finally discovered she didn't have
to choose a religion to choose God In a debut memoir that is funny
and earnest, Riley invites questioners, doubters, misfits, and
curious believers to participate in the universal search to heal
what life has broken. Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome takes you by
the hand and reminds you that sometimes you first have to be lost
in order to be found.
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