“As someone who grew up with three ministers in the family, going to church two or three times a week, Holy Heathen tickled my funny bone, triggered some painful memories, and touched my heart. With the sensitivity of a wounded child, the compassion of Quan Yin, the mystery of a mystic, and the wit of a stand up comic, Katherine North shares her poignant story of trauma and triumph as a child growing up in a missionary family in Japan. Yet she never casts herself as the victim, always illuminating the divinity in the humanity that left her feeling painfully squashed during most of her childhood. This is no sob story about a little girl made to sell her soul to Jesus. It’s an exquisitely-written tale of redemption from a wise woman who found her way back to Divinity through the soul of nature. In an animate universe filled with magic, Katherine finds herself. Home at last, she discovers that a loving Consciousness – call it what you will – has been there all along.”

Kind Words

– Lissa Rankin, MD,

Mind Over Medicine and The Anatomy of a Calling

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