![]() She advocates reading any beloved text with 1) faith-that the text always has something to say, 2) rigor-that commitment to a text, even when it is hard, pays off, and 3) community-that reading together yields great gifts. She does not think the book is perfect but that it is worthy of reading sacredly. ![]() ![]() Each week she and her HP co-host read a chapter and do some type of sacred reading practice, such as lectio divina or havruta. Zoltan is the founder and one of the co-hosts of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text and other podcasts. She describes a summer when she worked an internship as a hospital chaplain, carrying into every room her personal bible, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. And no one knows more about that practice than Vanessa Zoltan, author of Praying with Jane Eyre. That is part of what it means to practice sacred reading. At any moment you can pull up a paragraph and know exactly where you are in the story, and, all at once, you can find something wholly new. ![]() You carry her with you everywhere you go, so you can pop in anytime. Being someone who treats a text as sacred is asking a work of art to do mysterious things to you it is the most vulnerable way to interact with a text.” ![]()
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