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February 19, 2004
Hope in the Bronx
Last night during the Lehrer News Hour, Lutheran Pastor Heidi Neumark talked about her book, "Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx." Neumark is the pastor of the Transfiguration Lutheran Church in the South Bronx, where the congregation is a mixture of Hispanics and African Americans in one of the poorest communities in the city. In that neighborhood, the state-of-the-art, expensive jail for young boys towers over the crumbling, dilapidated school across the street.
She writes, “I have learned that grace cleaves to the depths, attends the losses and there slowly works her defiant transfiguration.”
I must read this book.
Adán
Posted by Adan at February 19, 2004 06:08 AM
Comments
I haven't read the book, but I've heard her speak -- and the story she shares brings the Gospel alive.
Posted by: Mary Hess at February 19, 2004 08:16 PM