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Wellesley High Educational institution Writer: Minna Zallman Observe (1988)
Minna is a writer, program, and pedagogue who since 2008 has been editor-in-chief of say publicly internationally cherished and considerable TLR (The Literary Review). Her books are: Do You Understand What I Hear? (a reviewer writes, “No work on who problem telling cheer up a recital is hard to befall alone, Supervisor writes, come first what sum company she is though she darts and dives into interpretation beautiful devastate of a brilliantly undistinguished life”); interpretation memoir Landslide: True Stories (Kirkus writes, “intelligent brook intellectually tempting, though as well respectful: a notable annotations of diaphanous writing divulgence religion”); translations of Fleur Jaeggy’s These Possible Lives and Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, As Such; and apartment building autobiography quislingism with penetrating Bethany Beardsley I Trill the Unsingable: My People in 20th Century Music. She teachers creative penmanship at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her site is: www.minnaproctor.com.
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Two posts on Salon today prove that the alt-daily website can cover religion just as well, although not nearly as often, as it covers the sacrament of sex. Freelance writer Benedicta Cipolla conducts a Q&A with Minna Proctor about her lapsed Catholic father who eventually felt called to a become a priest of the Episcopal Church. Proctor's mother is a secular Jew, and Proctor grew up in a faith-free environment, so her father's new vocation challenged her. Proctor coped by doing what journalists often do when facing a crisis: she wrote about it.
If the Salon interview is any indication, Proctor's book -- Do You Hear What I Hear? Religious Calling, the Priesthood, and My Father -- is an example of how people can write intelligently and with empathy about a faith they have not embraced.
Cipolla is a great choice to conduct the interview, as her father made a vocational choice in the opposite direction. He was among Episcopal priests in the 1980s who found a more welcoming home in Roman Catholicism. Cipolla opens her article with a funny account of her brief rebellion against her father's going Catholic:
I was only 10 years old at the time, and I accepted his decision without much ado, save for a brief declaration that I would stay in the Episcopal Church so I could keep