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After years as a Hollywood author and filmmaker, Kristin Hahn felt a situation of religion: she had no non secular staff she may well name her personal. starting up on a three-year trip, she started an research of America's spiritual traditions, practices, and beliefs.

Crisscrossing the state, Hahn spent every week cloistered in prayer with convent nuns and a month of Ramadan fasting with Muslims. She went door-to-door with younger Mormon missionaries and head-to-head with turbaned Sikh yogis. She sat via marathon meditations with Buddhist masters and spent days in dialog and rite with an 0jibwe drugs guy. Her explorations uncovered her to the wealthy, historic tradition of the Jews and taken her into the enclaves of Christian Scientists and Amish farmers, in addition to the fewer conventional nation-states of Scientology, neopagan witchcraft, and the congregations of new-age gurus.

And this was once simply the beginning.

Openhearted, funny, and continually considerate, In seek of Grace deals nourishment for our non secular starvation -- and a myriad of the way to discover a non secular home.

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