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Flunking Sainthood
Ragamuffin Brennan Manning Teaches That “All Is Grace”
By
Jana Riess
Everyone loves a reformed sinner, and Brennan Manning provides that in spades in his new memoir All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir. On second thought, I think the Irish-American Catholic writer might borrow from Protestant reformer John Calvin in adopting the motto “reformed and always reforming.” Manning would be the first to tell you he…
Burying Dad
By
Jana Riess
Tomorrow, I am burying my father’s ashes in a little cemetery in southern Illinois, where he can be laid to rest near his parents. It’s an odd kind of closure. Some of you know that my father crashed back into my life rather suddenly last October after a 26-year radio silence. He had abandoned our…
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