Word: drano
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...respectful, blank-canvas curiosity. Some of the nuns she interviews are cloistered, emerging only briefly from a shuttered existence. Others live in apartment complexes and work in boardrooms, indistinguishable from their secular counterparts. All seem inclined toward frank discussion of their faith--from describing morning prayers as "spiritual Drano" to accepting the likely demise of their vocation as part of God's plan. A chapter on sex and celibacy depicts enough furtive sexual encounters to satisfy salacious readers. But Kaylin presses beyond the prurient, and one nun's view of celibacy as deliverance (from gender stereotypes, makeup and shopping...
...respectful, blank-canvas curiosity. Some of the nuns she interviews are cloistered, emerging only briefly from a shuttered existence. Others live in apartment complexes and work in boardrooms, indistinguishable from their secular counterparts. All seem inclined toward frank discussion of their faith - from describing morning prayers as "spiritual Drano" to accepting the likely demise of their vocation as part of God's plan. A chapter on sex and celibacy depicts enough furtive sexual encounters to satisfy salacious readers. But Kaylin presses beyond the prurient, and one nun's view of celibacy as deliverance (from gender stereotypes, makeup and shopping...