{"id":4776,"date":"2018-12-02T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2018-12-02T13:48:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T13:48:02","slug":"and-then-they-were-nuns-by-susan-j-leonardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/and-then-they-were-nuns-by-susan-j-leonardi\/","title":{"rendered":"And Then They Were Nuns by Susan J. Leonardi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Susan J. Leonardi<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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‘Beatrice has probably told you that when someone starts talking about staying, we usually send her home for a while, away from the seductions of these holy hills, so she can decide whether she really wants to plant herself in a nunnery. And to make sure she’s not running away. As I was.’

Julian Pines Abbey. From 1965-2000, women come and stay or come and go, in a quiet experiment to remake religious and communal life. No tradition is safe from revision – not the tradition that says God is male, or that women can’t be priests, or that nuns must be celibate.

With a vision both generous and uncompromising, And Then They Were Nuns tells the story of the women who, as Sister Anne says, come for all the wrong reasons and – if they stay – stumble on good ones, while they struggle (sometimes hilariously) with love, sex, community, snakes, neighbors, outhouses, poverty, goats, sanity, sobriety, sisterhood, compost, and the life of the spirit.

Includes a book club reader’s guide.<\/div>\n

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