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    Hoping for More: Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace
    Hoping for More: Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace
    Hoping for More: Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace
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    Hoping for More: Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace

    By Deanna Thompson and Krista Tippett

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    "We tend to use words like miracle and mystery in the context of serendipity. In this frank and eloquent account of life transformed by cancer, Deanna Thompson explores these articles of faith as they are also wont to appear--on the hard edges of hope and the dark side of joy." --Krista Tippett, from the Foreword

    Hoping for More is a story of a young religion professor with a stage IV cancer diagnosis and a lousy prognosis for the future. Amid the grief and the grace of her fractured life, this theologian--who is also a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend--searches for words adequate to express her faltering faith. More Anne Lamott meets Harold Kushner than the teller of a pious, God-saved-me-from-cancer tale, Thompson unpacks the messy realities that arise when faith and suffering collide. Told in shimmering prose, Hoping for More takes readers on an unsentimental journey through the valley of the shadow of cancer--beyond the predictable parameters of prayer, the church, even belief in life after death. What emerges is a novel approach to talking faith and accepting grace when hope is all you've got.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781621892052
    Hoping for More: Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace
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    Deanna Thompson

    Deanna A. Thompson teaches religion at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2008, she has spent the years since talking and writing about how cancer and faith might coexist. Her books include Hoping for More: Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace and The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World. For more information, visit www.deannaathompson.com.

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