 | |
 View Larger |
If I Gave You God's Phone Number....: Searching for Spirituality in America By Mare Cromwell ( Pamoon Press )
Release Date: 2002-09
Average Customer Rating:
List Price: $23.95
Price: $19.40
Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
|  Add to Cart |
|
|
Book Description
This book is a unique exploration of how different people experience the Divine or choose not to -- woven together with one woman's spiritual journey. Part memoir, part interview-based, Mare Cromwell interviews Christians, Jews, agnostics, a Cherokee Medicine woman and others in her search for a path that brings her closer to God. All interviews are framed by the question: "If I gave you God's phone number, what would you do with it?" Sometimes shocking and sometimes inspirational, it is an honest aperture into the diverse perceptions of God, religion and spirituality in our society. It also speaks to one woman's journey away from the Catholic Church to a spirituality that more broadly encompasses a Creator - Earth Mother balance.
|
|
 Fascinating interviews
In this book, the author interviews people starting with the question in the title. The question amused me, but the interviews are serious (well, sometimes funny) and the author does an excellent job of following up with other questions that get to the core of the person's philosophy and concerns. What's striking about this book is the way people opened up to the author and shared their thoughts and beliefs. It says a lot about the author's openness and empathy. The range of people interviewed and the personal memoir wrapped around the interviews give depth to the book. Anyone who is curious about the state of spirituality in this country will find this book interesting.
|
 What a wonderful spiritual book!! ( camden0022 )
I couldn't put this book down once I started to read. Her nonjudgmental stance toward religion in general is amazing (unlike with fundamentalists of religions such as Christians and Muslims), and she does a marvelous job of conveying what was said in the interview. She interviews a group of very diverse people whom it must have been a challenge to find and have them agree to interview about God. I admire her determination in finding the strength to interview these people and make a book about it. The interview that touched me the most was of the death row inmate who claims was unjustly convicted for a crime he didn't do and who believe God is being tough on him. I really don't know if he is making up his own story or if he really is innocent (only God knows the full truth...). Finally this book is infinitely better than the Christian scare tactics ones by Bill Wiese and Mary Baxter about hell (those I didn't appreciate at all).
I am definitely saving this book for future reference and going to read again in 6 months. Hopefully I will read it in half the time at that point. Anyway thank you Mrs. Cromwell for the wonderfully written book. Great job!
|
Profound insights ( jerrylindauer )
Found it a very new experience to read this book. It was quite fascinating to read the incredibly wide range of experiences of God, higher power or however individuals do or don't engage the divine. The opportunity to explore these very personal individual experiences was very artfully intertwined with the author's own life questions and experiences at a very deep level...it's a brave telling of deeply personal experiences that generously offered the opportunity to walk with her on this journey. It profoundly changed my perspective of how each person has a truly individual experience of the divine. Highly recommend this book.
|
A phone man verfies the connection. ( louisp3 )
This is a delightful collection of responses to an ancient question with a modern twist. Mare described each character to enable me to envision them answering the questons. Her post-scripts allowed me to see how each interview effected her, as I gained insight into myself by recognizing my own experiences and thoughts, past and present.I thank Mare and the people she interviewed for sharing their experiences and feelings as we journey with them. The beauty along the path is made more vivid when it is shared. - With love
|
Insightful work of passion ( duncan43 )
I just finished this book and think it is great. Motivated by a personal quest for a deeper understanding of the spiritual side of life, the author has conducted a series of interviews with ordinary people that shows the quest is present with most all of us.I liked the book's organization into "interview" chapters, things that stood by themselves. I would find that I would read an interview at a time and then reflect on what I had read. I also liked the variety of interviews ranging from an eight-year-old girl to an eighty-year-old woman reflecting on her life to a convict on death row. I found myself pulled to these interviews in the same way that I was pulled to Neale Walsch's "Conversations with God". As different as the interviews were I was struck by a common theme through most of them - if God is real and good, how can He allow bad things to happen? The best answer to this came in the last interview with a Native American who brought a wisdom and clarity that reinforces my profound respect for indigenous cultures. This book is obviously a work of passion by a woman where the result it self seems to represent the thing that motivated her to do it - to seek out and find a true connection with God.
|
|
|