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Jana Riess is the author of Flunking Sainthood, a 2011 book about failing at twelve different spiritual practices. She is also currently working on The Twible, a three-year Twitter project with humorous daily Bible updates for your amusement (find her on Twitter as @janariess). She has a few silly degrees from swanky schools but was never once able to climb the rope in gym class. Her spiritual director is Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Actually, no. That title was just a teaser. There really aren’t any fun moments in the Book of Lamentations, which is why I had to make my own with the Twible. As you’ve probably guessed, Lamentations is a bit of [...]
I have an article today in the Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog, tackling the question of Mitt Romney’s Mormonism and how it fits into American political history. Now that the Republicans seem to be holding their noses and voting for [...]
I’ve been editing a superb book recently by Lynne Baab on spiritual practices. (Called Joy Together, it’ll be out in the fall.) After exploring what congregations and churches can do to grow with God together by trying contemplative prayer, Sabbath-keeping, [...]
I caught an interesting episode of the Diane Rehm show today featuring Lori Andrews, author of I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did,a new book releasing today about social networks and the rapid erosion of privacy. [...]
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Previous Posts
The Top Five Reasons Book Authors Should Blog
posted 11:29:28am Jan. 26, 2012 | read full post »
Thank You, Flunking Sainthood Readers!
posted 12:41:10pm Jan. 25, 2012 | read full post »
NYC Conference on Mormonism & American Politics, February 3-4
posted 11:09:19am Jan. 23, 2012 | read full post »
Writing Retreat
posted 8:47:20pm Jan. 14, 2012 | read full post »
Fun with the Book of Lamentations
posted 11:33:13am Jan. 13, 2012 | read full post » |
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Jana Riess
