[Tax-chick]

There’s plenty of heavy-duty reading material in our local Protestant bookstores, too ... as well as fluff, of course.

Like so many, this writer seems to think there’s only one way of approaching Christianity, only one set of relevent thoughts and experiences ... HERS! It makes me wonder if she’s really 16 years old, and the photo with the article is “age-progressed” to fool the reader :-).

[AnAmericanMother]

Typical grad student, actually.

Plenty of "book-larnin'" but no common sense and an inflated estimate of her own ideas.

[AnAmericanMother]

I actually shop our local Episcopalian bookstore (shhhh!) because they have higher quality rosaries and icons than the local Catholic stores. Of course it has the usual complement of tacky (and heretical) fluff . . . but also some very good writing, especially the older stuff before the denomination ran off the rails.

There is a Cokesbury (Methodist) bookstore here, but the only time I went in there I was buying a plain choir cross for my daughter's Alexander Anderson costume for Hallowe'en. The Japanese certainly have ODD ideas about Western religion!