![]() ![]() I say this as one who regularly finds herself at a microphone in front of hundreds of high-school or college-aged Christian women, trying to express the sacred meanings of human sexual intercourse. And every young woman to whom I have recommended Kristin in the past year has reacted to it as if they had discovered a new world. It makes another signal contribution it demonstrates no, that's not strong enough it makes you feel the relationship between our sexual selves and the rest of our lives, powerfully, and that is exactly what's needed to challenge current prevailing attitudes, which can be summed as: "As long as it's consensual, what I do sexually is nobody's business." Any young woman under my influence will get a copy of Kristin to read the day she turns 16. Kristin gives you insight into virtue and makes you want to be more virtuous yourself. So I might be forgiven for my effusive enthusiasm on discovering what many have called the greatest Catholic novel ever written, Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. There are so few books today that "matter," that talk about their subject, in light of the divine destiny of every human being. ![]()
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