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Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia

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Mountain Sisters: From Convent To Community In Appalachia
This is a great book!This books shows you can do anything if you put your mind to it.Tells how these women over came the struggles of being nuns in the mountains of Appalachia.They left the convent knowing that they could somehow still help people and serve God without losing who they were.These ladies still continue to help to this day.

I should have read about the content more carefully. I thought this would be an uplifting book, but it's about disgruntled sisters who were bitter over petty things and left their order to enter into lesbian or other self-centered lifestyles. They did help the poor, all the while patting themselves on the back and pointing proudly at their accomplishments. Not really informative or inspiring unless your looking to read another trash the nuns book.

This is an awesome story of how a group of over 40 Catholic nuns left the convent and formed their own nonprofit social service organization. It is of tremendous relevance for those who would like an insight into how people can live in community supporting each other and improving the lives of their "neighbors," who in this case were Appalachians exploited by the coal mining industry. This is a "must read" for anyone concerned about the future, particularly those in the Transition Town movement, and for anyone interested in intentional communities.