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St. Francis and the Christian Life: A Disorderly Parable of the Epistle to the Galatians
St. Francis and the Christian Life: A Disorderly Parable of the Epistle to the Galatians
St. Francis and the Christian Life: A Disorderly Parable of the Epistle to the Galatians
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How do we live the Christian life? April Love-Fordham and her husband contemplated this as they retraced the footsteps of Saint Francis across the Italian wilderness. Did they need to renounce materialism and live more simply? Did they need to do more work serving those in need? Was more Bible study or a stronger prayer life needed? What made their commitment to Christ different than those committed to other faiths? How could their lives make a difference?

Love-Fordham was planning a lecture series on Galatians, written by the Apostle Paul, when she and her husband began their pilgrimage. As they journeyed into the life and legends of Saint Francis, a playful old-school Franciscan monk befriended them. Together, the three named the parallels and divergences in the lives of Saint Francis and Paul. In doing so, they discovered an entirely new--but ancient--way of following Jesus.

This book teaches Galatians the way Jesus taught: through parables. In this case, the parables are about Saint Francis. Each section ends with a spiritual practice designed to help readers discover their own unique way of living the Christian life.
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Release dateDec 13, 2018
ISBN9781532636356
St. Francis and the Christian Life: A Disorderly Parable of the Epistle to the Galatians
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April Love-Fordham

April Love-Fordham, with a BEE and MSEE from Georgia Institute of Technology, spent twenty years in the corporate world including several in Washington DC as a technology advisor. Having worked her way to the executive suite, she retired from the corporate world in her early forties to earn an MDiv from Columbia Theological Seminary, which named her as a 2014 Guthrie Scholar. She also received a DMin from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary while pastoring two churches. Her books James in the Suburbs won the 2019 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal for Christian Study/Devotion and Dismantling Injustice won the 2021 Reader's Favorite Silver Medal for Christian Book. She lives with her husband and their Great Dane in the suburbs of Atlanta where she is writing a series of Disorderly Parable Bible Studies.

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