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    Being Us: Perceiving God, a Radical View
    Being Us: Perceiving God, a Radical View
    Being Us: Perceiving God, a Radical View
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    Being Us: Perceiving God, a Radical View

    By Lewis Randa

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    Have you ever wondered why bad things happen? Or questioned there being a personal God? Following the tragic death of a close friend of his daughter, Lewis Randa experienced a life-changing dream that altered his understanding of the existence of God. In Being Us, Lewis reflects on what he describes as a dark night of the soul

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPalmetto Publishing
    Release dateApr 5, 2022
    ISBN9781685156800
    Being Us: Perceiving God, a Radical View
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    Lewis Randa

    Lewis Randa is a Quaker, pacifist, vegan and social change activist. He founded The Life Experience School for children and young adults with life challenges in 1972, and The Peace Abbey, an interfaith Center for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence and Pacifism in 1988. His peace work has brought him to the far corners of the world -- from El Salvador to Belfast, Liverpool to Calcutta, Assisi to Guernica. He has three grown children, Christopher, Michael and Abigail, and lives with his wife Meg in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

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