Alice Munro, who died yesterday, explored themes of survival in everyday settings.
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Enthralled by Anglicanism’s Theatricality
Spiritual Sunday Last month I posted on a wonderful Alice Munro short story, “The Age of Faith,” about a girl wrestling with issues of faith. In today’s post I look specifically at the protagonist’s experience with the town’s Anglican church since I myself am Anglican (or, as we call it in America, Episcopalian). Most of […]
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Children Wrestling with Faith & Doubt
Alice Munro’s “Age of Faith” is a powerful portrait of how children turn to God–and also why they turn away.
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Munro’s Strategies for Emotional Survivial
Alice Munro’s wondrous fiction looks at how we both cling to and feel suffocated by monotony.
