Blessed Are the Nones : Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community

Can the Christian life be lived alone? When her husband left Christianity several years into their marriage, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left "spiritually single"—struggling to live the Christian life on her own, taking her kids to church by herself, and wrestling with her own questions and doubts. In this memoir, Kielsmeier-Cook tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found community in an unexpected place: an order of Catholic nuns in her neighborhood. As she spent time with them and learned about female Catholic saints, she began to see that she was not "spiritually single" after all—and that no one really is. Can the Christian life be lived alone?When her husband left Christianity several years into their marriage, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left "spiritually single"—struggling to live the Christian life on her own, taking her kids to church by herself, and wrestling with her own questions and doubts.In this memoir, Kielsmeier-Cook tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found community in an unexpected place: an order of Catholic nuns in her neighborhood. As she spent time with them and learned about female Catholic saints, she began to see that she was not "spiritually single" after all—and that no one really is. Memoir;Christian memoir;marriage memoir;memoir on Christian marriage;Christian marriage memoir;doubt;agnostic;marriage;interfaith marriage;mixed faith marriage;unequally yoked;unbelieving spouse;unbelieving husband;unbelieving wife;husband is not a Christian;wife is not a Christian;deconversion;apostasy;disbelief;nuns;monasticism;catholic nun;catholic monastery;order of catholic nuns;Christian community;spiritually single;female catholic saints;Christian marriage;Christian to agnostic conversion "After her husband became an agnostic, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left struggling to live the Christian life on her own. In this memoir, she tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found unexpected community with an order of Catholic nuns, discovering that she was not "spiritually single" after all-and that no one really is"-- Provided by publisher