Practicing Resurrection: Be like the fox
Sunday, May 11
10 a.m., Crail C
Our Adult Formation Crail C series during the season of Eastertide is entitled Practicing Resurrection. Guest speakers who are writers and poets will be invite us to think about resurrection, not just as the promise of heaven or eternal life, but also as a life-giving reality in the world today that turns things upside down for the sake of God’s love.
Resurrection is not about believing six impossible things before breakfast but is instead about how we live out this mysterious idea of eternity mixing into or flashing like a trout in our actual, messy lives. On Sunday, May 11, join bestselling author, Nora Gallagher, via Zoom, as she explores the resurrection story from John’s gospel in which the disciples encounter Jesus cooking fish for them. He is not a triumphant king but a lowly camp cook.
About Nora Gallagher
Nora Gallagher is an American writer of memoir, fiction, and essays whose work, as one reviewer put it, "is renewing the language of ultimate concerns.” Gallagher's novel, Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace Things Seen and Unseen was a bestseller and a finalist in the Spiritual category of the 1998 Books for a Better Life Awards. An excerpt was a finalist for Best Spiritual Essays.
Her essays, book reviews, and journalism have appeared in many publications including The New York Times Magazine, DoubleTake, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Utne Reader, The Village Voice, Mother Jones, The Los Angeles Times, and the Psychotherapy Networker.
Gallagher was invited to enter seminary to become an Episcopal priest but finally decided to remain a layperson. She is preacher-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, and has given sermons in faith communities nationwide, including St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, St. Paul’s Cathedral San Diego, and Stanford University's Memorial Church. She has lectured on writing and taught writing workshops at Yale Divinity School and the Festival of Homiletics.
Nora is currently working on a book about our legitimate and meaningful place in this very large world, fundamental to the problem, not only of saving the planet, but how to live.
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