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For fans of Margaret Renkl and Lisa Wells’s Believers, World Without End circles the connections between climate change and faith in the fear and fascination of the end of the world.When Martha Park’s father announces he is retiring from the ministry after forty-two years, she moves home to Memphis to…


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From my review at the Southern Review of Books: Across each of these vulnerable essays, Park offers no definitive path forward. What each essay points to is unending change. This book is needed. Instead of sharing hard-and-fast edicts, the kind desired by those with a fundamentalist frame of mind, Park advocates for courage and conversation. When we, too, ask questions about life, death, parenting, the climate, God, and how to be a good human, she is generous enough to tell us a hard truth: there are no answers. But knowing, and even understanding, isn't the goal. The task, according to…

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