Reviews for Returning

The average rating for Returning based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-23 00:00:00 Mark Goldberg A lovely, thoughtful spiritual memoir--essentially a look through the author's life and noticing the ways God was there, guiding him in moments he didn't realize. I'm reading as part of my project to read 1988 books throughout 2018 (@1988is2018 on Twitter), so I'd like to have a clever comment here about how this fits with the times or something. But if anything, it *doesn't* seem to fit with the emergence of the Moral Majority and other Christian movements I associate with the 80s; instead, Wakefield is open, thoughtful, and wise.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-12 00:00:00 James Hall I wish I had more to say about "Returning: A Spiritual Journey" than I do, but it's more a book I respected and appreciated than I actually enjoyed and immersed myself in. As a fairly new member of a local Unitarian-Universalist congregation, I have found myself exploring the world of UU writing and, not surprisingly, Wakefield popped up. Being that I'm also from Indy, I took the chance to read this book that vividly recounts Wakefield's return to church later in life after many years of intellectual pursuits and life indulgences that mostly served to tear Wakefield away from himself. It's not particularly surprising given Wakefield's desire for ritual yet more intellectual base that he would find himself embracing King's Chapel and the world of UU. In many ways, we have similar reasons for doing so yet in my own case my life has never really been without organized religion. Sometimes, there are simply books that you respect yet don't speak to you personally. "Returning: A Spiritual Journey" is a valuable book and I appreciated Wakefield's stories but in hoping to grab the essence of why someone turns to Unitarian-Universalism it fell short for me.