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A review by siria
River of Fire by Helen Prejean
4.0
A warm and candid memoir, River of Fire discusses the first half of Sr. Helen Prejean's life, before she began her work as an anti-death penalty advocate, the work for which she is now best known. It focuses on how Prejean's ideas about faith and vocation gradually shifted, from an insular piety as a young woman to ones which engaged more fully with the complexity of poverty, racism, and other forms of injustice.
Reading Prejean's memoir reminded me that there are things I can admire about those who have religious faith. Reading the strident TradCath reviews of it here, which chastise Prejean for believing in God the "wrong" way, remind me of some of the many reasons why I walked away from Catholicism a long time ago.
Reading Prejean's memoir reminded me that there are things I can admire about those who have religious faith. Reading the strident TradCath reviews of it here, which chastise Prejean for believing in God the "wrong" way, remind me of some of the many reasons why I walked away from Catholicism a long time ago.