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- Cover Type:
- 288 Pages
- Publisher: Riott Publishing, LLC
- Publication Date: Published: March 2006
- ISBN: SGARRIMATHOUSANDRESURRECTION9780976200413
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A Thousand Resurrections: An Urban Spiritual Journey
Publisher's Description
What would make a young, gifted college student well postured to achieve her place in the American dream decide to pursue another dream - one that would force her to take food stamps and move into a violent urban community? What would sustain her for over two decades while she raised five children in a context of failed educational systems, lead poisoning, and chronic theft? What would eventually compel her to move and yet still embrace the issues of city?
This is one woman's story of a return to a city that many have fled. It is about the challenges, heartbreaks, lessons, and joys of a woman participating in the transformation of the city while being transformed herself.
This title includes a discussion guide at the end of the book.
About the Author
Maria Garriott's poetry, essays, and nonfiction articles have appeared in The Baltimore Sun, The New York Quarterly, The Christian Century, Urban Mission Journal, Our Sunday Visitor, and the Maryland Poetry Review. She earned a B.A. from the University of Maryland and a Master’s degree from Towson University. She is a curriculum writer for The Johns Hopkins University Talent Development Middle Grades Program. She and Craig are the parents of five children.
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"This is an honest and heartfelt book. Maria deals frankly and transparently with the many mistakes they made. She deals honestly with the heartbreak they experienced time and again when people who seemed to embrace the faith walked away or took their own lives. She describes living in an area of the city that was, in so many ways, inhospitable. She deals with raising her children in a neighborhood where the family always seemed to be at risk. And throughout, she shares stories of the grace and the faith that sustained them.
Lynne Hybels
Willow Creek Community Church
"Well worth reading. Twenty five years ago, when she was just twenty two, Maria Garriott and her husband moved to the inner city. Settling in a poverty-stricken area of Baltimore, the Garriotts set about beginning a church that would reach out to the multiracial neighborhoods around them. A Thousand Resurrections tells this story. The book's subtitle, "An Urban Spiritual Journey," is instructive. While it would be easy to see this book as the story of the building of a church, I think it is more accurate to see this as a book describing the spiritual journey of the author. Of course she does tell the story of the church and also tells the story of her husband and children, but the core of the book seems to be the author's journey. And it is a fascinating journey.
Tim Challies
www.challies.com
"Maria's words capture the brokenness and healing, the grief and joy that lie at the heart of every true story of personal or community transformation."
Joni Eareckson Tada
founder of Joni and Friends
"Grip your chair. This mind-boggling account of a family's naive-yet-determined move to one of America's challenging urban neighborhoods will lay its hand on you. Maria Garriott's descriptions pull you in, her characters insist you stay. The narrative pays its rent up to the last page, which arrives all too quickly. I envy those about to read this story for the first time."
Steven Estes
co-author (with Joni Eareckson Tada) of When God Weeps
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Publisher's Description
What would make a young, gifted college student well postured to achieve her place in the American dream decide to pursue another dream - one that would force her to take food stamps and move into a violent urban community? What would sustain her for over two decades while she raised five children in a context of failed educational systems, lead poisoning, and chronic theft? What would eventually compel her to move and yet still embrace the issues of city?
This is one woman's story of a return to a city that many have fled. It is about the challenges, heartbreaks, lessons, and joys of a woman participating in the transformation of the city while being transformed herself.
This title includes a discussion guide at the end of the book.
About The Author
Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 288 Pages
- Publisher: Riott Publishing, LLC
- Publication Date: Published: March 2006
- ISBN: SGARRIMATHOUSANDRESURRECTION9780976200413
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