Practice Resurrection: And Other Essays

＂Few are better than [Reece] is at discussing a personal crisis of faith—although he prefers to say his religion ＂vanished like a mist off the creek＂—in such authentic language. For Reece, universal truth is personal.＂ —Booklist (starred review)

In Erik Reece’s stunning collection of essays, ideas are the main characters. Written over a period of ten years, and revealing Reece’s continued obsession with religion, family, and the natural world, in many ways these essays represent a sequel to his stirring memoir, An American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God. In that book, Reece intimately describes his conflicted relationship with Christianity in the context of the death of his father, a Baptist minister from rural Virginia who committed suicide at the age of thirty-three, and Reece’s own journey since then to find meaning and balance in the material and spiritual worlds. Practice Resurrection continues that exploration through essays that take the reader to Norway, New England, London, the Adirondacks, Appalachia, and back to Reece’s native Kentucky River.