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The Gift of Inner Healing By Ruth Carter Stapleton

Word Books, 115 pp., $4.95 Five years ago, had we known that such a diverse cast of characters as Charles Colson, the Galloping Gourmet, Eldridge Cleaver, and the Democratic presidential nominee would announce their rebirth and publicly declare they were now living their lives for Christ, we’d have concluded that the America of the late Seventies would be a zany place indeed. And had we known that the New York Times Book Review would give prominent space to a respectful review of a Waco, Texas, religious press product by a woman evangelist who insists that visions of Jesus heal psychic scars, we would have feared for the sanity of that august publication. But it has all happened:

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The Gift of Inner Healing By Ruth Carter Stapleton

Word Books, 115 pp., $4.95 Five years ago, had we known that such a diverse cast of characters as Charles Colson, the Galloping Gourmet, Eldridge Cleaver, and the Democratic presidential nominee would announce their rebirth and publicly declare they were now living their lives for Christ, we’d have concluded that the America of the late Seventies would be a zany place indeed. And had we known that the New York Times Book Review would give prominent space to a respectful review of a Waco, Texas, religious press product by a woman evangelist who insists that visions of Jesus heal psychic scars, we would have feared for the sanity of that august publication. But it has all happened: