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    My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir
    My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir
    My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir
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    My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir

    Written by Colleen Carroll Campbell

    Narrated by Susan Hanfield

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    In My Sisters the Saints, author Colleen Carroll Campbell blends her personal narrative of spiritual seeking, trials, stumbles, and breakthroughs with the stories of six women saints who profoundly changed her life: Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, Faustina of Poland, Edith Stein of Germany, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Mary of Nazareth.

    Drawing upon the rich writings and examples of these extraordinary women, the author reveals Christianity's liberating power for women and the relevance of the saints to the lives of contemporary Christians.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 24, 2017
    ISBN9781541487086
    My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir
    Author

    Colleen Carroll Campbell

    Colleen Carroll Campbell is an award-winning author, print and broadcast journalist, and former presidential speechwriter. Her books include her critically acclaimed journalistic study, The New Faithful, and spiritual memoir, My Sisters the Saints, which won two national awards and has been published in five languages. Colleen has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Christianity Today, America, and National Review, and she has appeared on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, ABC News, PBS, NPR, and EWTN, where she hosted her own television and radio shows for eight years. A former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and editorial writer and op-ed columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Colleen is the recipient of two honorary doctorates and numerous other awards for her work. She speaks to audiences across North America and Europe and lives on the central coast of California with her husband and their four children, whom she homeschools. Visit her online at Colleen-Campbell.com.

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    • 5/5
      This spiritual memoir is powerful. The author draws the reader in with its very human journey. The challenges she faces are very relatable. As she is dealing with illness and loss, relationships, the draw of motherhood, career issues, and more, she is also trying to find her place in the world. Ultimately, she turns to her Catholic roots to help sort it all out. Reconnecting with women saints at critical junctures along the way, the author finds a sense of sisterhood. She realizes these very human women faced similar challenges. Each saint struggled with spirituality in a harsh human world, too. Reading the words from their personal journey, she is able to draw inspiration and strength for her own. This beautiful memoir reads easily and quickly, but leaves you feeling fulfilled. As a woman who was raised Southern Baptist and converted to Catholicism, I could relate to her spiritual journey. This is an important book that I will read again and again.

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    • 4/5
      I identified with her search for meaning quite a bit. I thought it was a great read. And a nice surprised as I just picked it up on a whim.
    • 1/5
      While I did read the entire book, I had to stop halfway through as it was so depressing. The author uses the lives of the saints as a vehicle to underscore her personal memoirs. However, nothing seems to go well in her life. The agonizing details of her father's descent into dementia, as well as the minute by minute apprisal of her labor to deliver twins, were unbearable. I was really tired of hearing about her monthly disappointments of non-pregnancy. This read like a reality show in print,and a maudlin one at that. I think the author wrote this book for herself, perhaps as an attempt to come to grips with issues in her life, and to purge herself of the sorrows detailed in the book.