Bill Dodds (1)
Autore di Happily Ever After Begins Here and Now: Living the Beatitudes Today
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Sull'Autore
Bill Dodds is a free-lance writer and editor and the author or coauthor of fifteen books
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Opere di Bill Dodds
Walking in the Light 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di nascita
- Des Moines, Iowa, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Istruzione
- St. Thomas Seminary
University of Washington
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 28
- Utenti
- 227
- Popolarità
- #99,086
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 36
So, while on a papal trip to Canada, he evades his keepers one morning as he sneaks out in search of a "little something" to clear his seriously hungover brain, goes off on a toot, and never returns. This could have turned into a tongue-in-cheek satire but instead, the author takes the reader on a serious journey through the hell of recovering alcoholics, shows us a hopeful story about the 12 step program, a serious look at social and religious practices, a slight mystery, and introduces us to some of the most loveable (if disreputable) characters to inhabit the pages of a book in quite a while. Ultimately it's a story of sin, sorrow, forgiveness, redemption, and conversion.
Although it certainly sings of Catholicism, it paints a clear picture of the church, its clergy and all their warts. Dodds is a writer who is able to give us real people, who are real sinners, real friends, and who are willing to allow themselves to experience the grace they preach to others. A little gem.… (altro)