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Toto · 06-15-2009, 01:28 PM

The title is modeled on Harold Zinn's People's History of the United States.

Spiritual Memory: A People's History of Christianity (or via: amazon.co.uk) by Diana Butler Bass

Interview with the author

Quote:

Diana Butler Bass is an independent commentator on American religion, a blogger at Beliefnet’s Progressive Revival http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/ formerly a New York Times Syndicate columnist...

"About a dozen years ago, [a friend] quizzed me as to why I was still a Christian. Although I actually tried to avoid answering her, I eventually realized that I had remained a Christian largely because I am held in faith by history—the past provides me with spiritual memory and a community that exists through time. Many people, of course, reject Christianity on the basis of its history. Of course, Christians have committed a much historical mischief and done outright evil things. But that’s not the whole story. "

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