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The Spiritual Practice of Remembering By Margaret Bendroth, Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2013, 141 pp., ISBN 978-0-8028-6897-8, $16.00 (paper).
Margaret Bendroth, a historian who directs the Congregational Library in Boston, is concerned that American churchgoers have become disconnected from the past to our great detriment, something she wishes to correct. Modern, a word itself fraught, Americans are adrift, especially in Protestant churches, because of "historylessness," and regard the past with a sense of historicism in a way...