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Nora Gallager to Speak in Birmingham
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Starting: Wednesday 10 September 2008 - 06:30 PM
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St. Stephens Episcopal Church |
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Practicing Resurrection: A vibrant evening of deep and lasting personal transformation "I felt an urgency to reclaim the holy in my life, to find a new way to spend myself....And thus I set out to do something new as a way to come to myself." --Practicing Resurrection Ms. Gallagher is presenting a talk on this theme at St. Stephens Episcopal Church on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 from 6:30-7:30 p.m with a book signing afterwards. Gallagher will explore what calling might really mean, in the church but most particularly in the world, by exploring images, story telling, comparing our stories with scripture and doing simple listening, and discernment exercises, looking for "the sly, improbable interference of the Holy Spirit." Nora Gallagher's novel Changing Light has received outstanding reviews in the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times. It is one of three novels chosen by Borders for its March-April Original Voices program. Her memoir Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith received outstanding reviews from the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Annie Dillard called it " a wonderful book" and said, "Nora Gallagher...describes church life and spiritual life with absolute accuracy." Her second memoir, Practicing Resurrection, received outstanding reviews and was a finalist for Beliefnet Book of the Year. Her essays, book reviews, op-eds and journalism have appeared in many publications including The New York Times Magazine, DoubleTake, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Utne Reader, The Village Voice, Mother Jones, and The Los Angeles Times. A sermon is collected in Sermons that Work (Morehouse Publishing March 2003) and a poem in the anthology, September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond. She is licensed to preach by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, a preacher-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, and is on the Board of Advisors of the Yale Divinity School. She lives in California and New York City with her husband, the novelist and poet, Vincent Stanley. They are the godparents of five children. Ms. Gallagher is presently at work on a book on "The Sacred Meal," part of a series published by Thomas Nelson and edited by Phyllis Tickle, on the Ancient Practices. She is also at work on a screenplay for Changing Light as well as notes for her third memoir: Praying In New York.
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Contact |
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Phone: 205-967-8786 |
