Selected Works

Memoir
An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith (HarperOne, 2009)
"This is the most completely beautiful book in religion that I have read in a very long time."
--Phyllis Tickle
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006)
"I love this book. Her beautiful, absorbing memoir will bless countless readers, helping us to see God in the church, and out in the world, and in the small interstices in between."
--Lauren Winner
Sermon Preparation
Nonfiction
Home By Another Way (Cowley Publications, 1999)
“Sermons wonderfully intelligent, moving and direct.”
--Annie Dillard
When God Is Silent (Cowley Publications, 1998)
The 1997 Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale

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