Scan barcode
kasikil's review
5.0
Chapter 8, Love Is As Strong As Death, is extraordinarily profound. The entire book is a love letter and it is worth reading.
claytonthegreen's review
5.0
Chapter 8, Love Is As Strong As Death, is extraordinarily profound. The entire book is a love letter and it is worth reading.
sunday_evening's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Meh.
oliviacookie's review
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
This is one of the most life-changing, mindset-altering, and heart-shifting books I have read in a long time. I’m my break from church, I have been easing back into reading Christian texts and thinkers, and Victoria Loorz felt like a long lost friend I was always supposed to connect with. I expect the words of this book to stick with me for a long time, and if it turns me into some tree-hugging nature hippie, so be it. So thankful for this read
kitkats's review
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
This book was not what I was expecting. Some parts of it very much resonated with me while others parts definitely did not. Still it was in such a way that I wanted to expand my perspective to understand where the author was coming from. While some parts of the book to my, very cynical brain, did light in me a spiritual fire I don’t think the author was going for that. Despite my cynicism I do look forward to trying some of the practices described in this book and I’m glad I read it.
hudikatz's review
4.0
Eh. Fire quote incoming: "“You don’t need to read a hundred new ecotheology books or leave the church to become an animist or pantheist…You simply need to learn how to listen. And allow your heart to be broken, just like you do every time you fall in love. Because the holy is in your place too You open the gates into this enchanted land, your home, with hands muddied from the soil outside your house and a raw, scabby, and unprotected heart. YOu enter naked and brave” (xi)."
aligibbs24's review
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
This is exactly the type of spirituality x nature book I needed. It was affirming that all of the other authors Loorz referenced are authors I have read and admire, too.
rebeconda's review
4.0
4.5 In this book, part memoir, part theological treatise, Loorz re-imagines Christian spirituality in light of kinship with the natural world.
I am grateful for Loorz’s language of being an “edge-walker” or someone at the fringes of her faith tradition. And how “edge-walkers” of faith traditions often have more in common with each other than with those in the mainstream of their faith. Loorz has remained more connected to the church than I have, feeling called to “re-wild the church”. I honor her calling & feel grateful for the ways she speaks truth to power, exposing the ways patriarchy, racism, and empire have shaped Christianity.
I found this a deeply worthwhile read.
I am grateful for Loorz’s language of being an “edge-walker” or someone at the fringes of her faith tradition. And how “edge-walkers” of faith traditions often have more in common with each other than with those in the mainstream of their faith. Loorz has remained more connected to the church than I have, feeling called to “re-wild the church”. I honor her calling & feel grateful for the ways she speaks truth to power, exposing the ways patriarchy, racism, and empire have shaped Christianity.
I found this a deeply worthwhile read.