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Glad to begin my year of reading about and practicing prayer with this book by Catherine Marshall, the author of my favorite novel "Christy." While I connected with Marshall's deep desire for a strong prayer life, and took away some valuable and challenging ideas about prayer and my relationship with the divine from reading this book, overall I was not impressed. The ideas she put forth about the power of prayer were so deeply rooted in class and her own social context that I had a difficult time relating. Her references to God in the masculine dominated the tone of the book, with a favorite touch phrase likening God's promises to the promises of a 'gentleman' of the highest stature - reinforcing a deeply rooted classism that reveres God as a dominant male landowner who is to be trusted because of gender and rank. I had a difficult time reading past this to the genuine faith that under girds her writing.
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