Best-selling Christian author and patron saint of writers everywhere Anne Lamott didn't set out to write a book about mercy.
Lamott simply realized when she heard the word “mercy,” it had the power to change her day. This was during the height of the U.S. presidential campaign, amid what she called “the general toxic frenzy of modern life, especially if you're politically active and a Sunday school teacher.”
And so she found herself thinking about mercy and reading about it and talking about it and writing about it.
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