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Putting the Amazing Back in Grace

By Ann Weems
WJKP. 1999. 112 pp. $14.95. ISBN 0-664-22150-5

Reviewed by Jane C. Perdue

 

Pay attention, lay people, ministers and Christian educators! Putting the Amazing Back in Grace is another Ann Weems collection of poems to use in reflection, preaching and teaching!

Her narrative poetry recalls life as a "child of the manse" during the outbreak of World War II. She remembers how she was troubled by the custom of awarding stars for Sunday school attendance and good behavior, wrote poetry her mother thought too pious, and struggled to understand the practice of self-denial during Lent (her father explained it as giving up selfishness).

She was aware of quarrels within the congregation over her father's...

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