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The Sin of Obedience is one of the few works of fiction or non-fiction that looks profoundly and with deep personal reflection into the training of a Catholic priest. The novel, rich and accurate in detail, is the story of a young prodigy torn with between the rigid religious traditions and convictions of his mother and the more-humanity-oriented respect for freedom of his father. Building on his own experiences, including being the subject of sexual abuse by a seminary teacher, the author unfolds a picture of religious life in which the cornerstones of celibacy and a vow of obedience have...

Some researchers describe women's sexuality as fluid, changeable, an acceptable condition. But women who cross sexual boundaries ex-perience profound spiritual upheaval and are often singled out by left and right ideologies as simply aberrant. This creative nonfiction work blends narrative, fiction, poetry, journaling, and research and documents one woman's drift into and then out of lesbianism set against the spiritual backdrop of Christianity. Heise chronicles the supernatural processes and paradoxes of change even as she sometimes struggles against it. She weaves in the voices of others...