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On Being with Krista Tippett
The book discussed her decision to leave her life of congregational ministry in 2006, as well as the decision to move from being a solo pastor to a college religion teacher in 1997. The book's three parts, finding, losing, and keeping, were considered a good framing for this kind of journey, both hers and the one our culture is on.
She wrote Leaving Church about her decision to leave her life of congregational ministry, finding other ways to stay, as she's written, alive and alert to the holy communion of the human condition, wh...
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The book discussed her decision to leave her life of congregational ministry in 2006, as well as the decision to move from being a solo pastor to a college religion teacher in 1997. The book's three parts, finding, losing, and keeping, were considered a good framing for this kind of journey, both hers and the one our culture is on.
She wrote Leaving Church about her decision to leave her life of congregational ministry, finding other ways to stay, as she's written, alive and alert to the holy communion of the human condition, which takes place on more altars than anyone can count.
And, you know, your book Leaving Church is one that a lot of people read.
I like the structure of that book, which is in three parts, finding, losing, and keeping, which also feels like a good framing for this kind of journey, not just that you've been on, but that we're on as a culture.
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The book was structured into three parts: finding, losing and keeping, which felt like a good framing for both the author's journey and that of the wider culture.
And your book, Leaving Church is one that a lot of people read. And I like the structure of that book, which is in three parts, finding, losing and keeping, which also feels like a good framing for this, for this kind of journey, not just that you've been on, but that we're on as a culture.
You were an ordained minister, you were a priest. When I first heard about you when I was in Divinity School in the early nineties, you were this famous preacher, like the greatest preacher. And you were still in parish ministry at that time.
One of the things that intrigued me that you wrote about leaving parish ministry in 1997, then you became a college religion teacher.