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Beyond Parochial Faith: A Catholic Confesses
Beyond Parochial Faith: A Catholic Confesses
Beyond Parochial Faith: A Catholic Confesses
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Beyond Parochial Faith: A Catholic Confesses weaves the author's personal story of woundedness and healing with her spiritual evolution. While working through and growing from personal relationships, Clancy wrestles with large questions of life's meaning.
Her spiritual transformation allows no denial of God's existence, but her rational mind cannot accept the Christian Father/Son myth. She moves from parochial faith to faith informed by science, world religions, and the arguments of atheists.
Clancy denounces what she calls sexist God-talk and espouses "secular spirituality," while also honoring Jesus and religious myths for being avenues to transcendence.
Beyond Parochial Faith shows a deeply spiritual life independent of religion's dictates. "Nones," the Goddess, sexual assault, the #MeToo movement, and a gay priest play roles in this story. The author's questioning epitomizes Western spiritual evolution in the twenty-first century.
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Release dateMay 28, 2019
ISBN9781532672842
Beyond Parochial Faith: A Catholic Confesses
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Jeanette Blonigen Clancy

Jeanette Blonigen Clancy is an educator and writer in Minnesota. She taught languages and communication to adolescents and adults in a variety of settings, most recently teaching English to adult immigrants and supervising student teachers. Brought up in a blanketing Catholic climate, she obtained a master’s degree in systematic theology from a Catholic university and attends Mass with Benedictines, but claims a “secular spirituality,” free of religious dictates. She blogs at www.godisnot3guys.com.

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