For What It's Worth by Erin

Amazing Grace – A Vocabulary of Faith is one of my beloved books by one of my favorite Benedictine authors, Kathleen Norris. As the title says, its chapters are short ponderings and reflections on some unexpected vocabulary words that expand the notion of what faith is. Thought-provoking and delightful to read,  I continue to reread it to access its pithy wisdom.
 

Imagine these individual chapters — “God,” “Bible,” and “Prayer” (Well so far, nothing out of the ordinary); “Salvation,” “Detachment,” “Perfection,” “Repentance,” and three different chapters on Conversion; “Belief,” “Doubt,” and “Sacred Ambiguity" — all of which become a holy reading that is poetic and genuine in its depiction, worth reading and rereading for access to its intelligence and grace.
 

Get it at the library or buy a used copy on Amazon. To quote from a chapter titled  “Antichrist”: “What the pastor said was so simple that it will remain with me forever. ‘Each one of us acts as an Antichrist,’ he said, ‘whenever we hear the gospel and do not do it.’”