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I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here On Earth (2010)

by Brenda Peterson(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0306818043 (ISBN13: 9780306818042)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Da Capo Press

review 1: Brenda Peterson is a great writer, especially of nature. What compelled me to read this book was a radio interview with her where she compared the inflexible dogma of religious fundamentalists and diehard environmentalists: both see no possibility outside Armageddon. Her book has a light and loving touch as she probes her own family background,her biography and where she developed a love of nature, and the possibilities born within a new generation of earth- based , taoistic evangelicals. Beautiful and funny, too!
review 2: Not to be missed. Along with "Deer Hunting with Jesus" and "Crazy for God" gives a valuable and solidly interesting picture of the Evangelical Right --and those who've left yet still maintain family, compassionate ties. "I Want" is parti... morecularly interesting because of Brenda Peterson's deep love for the earth, and her work to live with it wisely, rather than to look forward to escaping it. She also does a very telling comparison of fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist environmentalists. less

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