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LOSING my religion One-quarter of Canadians are turning their backs on traditional worship, looking inward instead of upward for spiritual sustenance. Meet four soul survivors who have found new ways to connect with their spiritual side. by ANNE BOKMA
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screenwriter and bestselling novelist, was a girl, growing up in Chatham, ON, she dreamed of becoming a nun. Inspired by Jennifer Jones, who played a saintly peasant girl turned sister in the movie The Song of Bernadette, Lansens asked for a rosary for Christmas, read her Bible before bed and rose early to attend morning mass before school. Jesus, she says, was her “first crush,” because he valued outcasts, forgave sinners and reminded people to treat others the way they wanted to be treated. But when she was 12, everything changed. A priest she admired invited her and her best friend to the rectory to fold bulletins. He had
whisky on his breath and a leer in his eye. He touched them both inappropriately. She told no one but soon stopped going to mass. She also began to question the concept of God. “I felt betrayed by the God I knew, but I continued to think about a search for connection to some loving force,” says Lansens, who now lives in California. She may have lost her religion, but she didn’t lose her spirituality. She keeps that alive through her novels: international bestsellers Rush Home Road, The Girls, The Wife’s Tale and her newly released The Mountain Story. “When I write, I search for beauty and truth in people, in relationships and in the
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