Jana Riess
This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success (â€œReally, how hard could that be?â€ she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failingâ€”not just at some of the practices, but at every single one. What emerges is a funny yet vulnerable story of the quest for spiritual perfection and the reality of spiritual failure, which turns out to be a valuable practice in and of itself.Â 
Autobiography,Memoir,Nonfiction,Spirituality,Religion,Religion,Faith,Religion,Christianity,Biography,Humor,Christian,Lds,Mormonism
Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor