Religion

This was such an interesting book. It’s about three women who enter the convent from 1958 to 1967. They all meet years later at one of the convent houses in Minneapolis and become friends. Each of their stories is told in this book. How they came to hear the “calling”, the events that shaped them prior to taking their vows, and what became of them after taking their vows.

Do you ever feel as though you've put God in a box?  Tired of praying without seeming to get any results?  This book is for you.  If you want a deeper relationship with the One who started it all, take a chance and pick up this book.  Each chapter comes with a small questionnaire at the end, so you can quiz yourself.  Warning: it may challenge you to stretch and grow...

This is a great modern translation of the Tanakh and the Brit Hadashah (AKA the New Testament), giving the Bible what so many modern English translations had taken away: its essential Jewishness.  There's a glossary in the back for people who are unaccustomed to reading Biblical names in their Hebrew transliterations (e.g., Moses = Moshe, Jesse = Yishai, etc.).  Highly recommended to anyone who would like a newer translation without any "thees" and "thous."  Also interesting for anyone who has never read the Bible, either because it looked too hard or being from another religion.