31 Aug 2011
Book Reading
Friday, Sept. 9 at 5 pm
Toward the End of Ordinary Time
by Elizabeth MacKiernan Miel
Just nine days after September 11th, 2001 writer and artist Elizabeth MacKiernan Miel and her husband nervously decided to go ahead with a planned trip to Paris. Over the course of two weeks, the couple visited their favorite neighborhoods, museums and many, many churches. Miel, a Christian with a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies, found herself filling journal after journal with reflections on war, prejudice, art, and foreign cultures. She examines honestly the impact of 9/11 on her own faith not only in God but in tolerance and pacifism:
Toward the End of Ordinary Time documents one person’s spiritual journey in the days immediately after September 11th, touching on issues that are just as relevant today.
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Elizabeth MacKiernan Miel is a writer, scholar, translator and volunteer hospital and hospice chaplain living in Middletown, Connecticut. She studied Russian language and literature at Boston University, completed an M.Phil in linguistics at Yale University and a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies at the Hartford Seminary. She works part-time at Wesleyan University and serves as a lay minister at Grace Episcopal Church in Hartford, Connecticut. Her novel Ancestors Maybe was published under the name Elizabeth MacKiernan by Burning Deck Press. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications.
copies of the book are available at the store
