The Company of Sinners
A divinely inspired institution, the church is full of ordinary people who sometimes say and do cruel, stupid things.
By Kathleen Norris | posted 4/03/2000 12:00AM
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The New York Times Book Review says Amazing Grace's "strength lies in its depiction of a fallible woman engaged in spiritual inquiry. The reviewer of Norris's book in Sojourners, meanwhile, wrote, "My questions aren't always the same as Norris'; the words that trigger my fear or passion often differ. But in the end, Amazing Grace expanded my definitions and pushed me to have the courage and curiosity to wrestle with my own "scary" words; to bring words and the Word and worship and the world into true communion, come what may."
Another selection from the book, on apocalypticism, was published in the December 15, 1997, issue of U.S. News & World Report.
Leadership, a Christianity Today sister publication for church leaders, interviewed Norris for its Winter 1999 issue.
Read our related editorial, "Don't Give Up on the Church | Though often embattled and dysfunctional, the church is still where God chooses to meet us." It appeared in the October 6, 1997 issue of the magazine."
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