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Watson Hill Press is pleased to announce the publication of Toward the End of Ordinary Time, by Elizabeth MacKiernan Miel.
How are we not to be prejudiced against Muslim men?… Fear is a nervous reaction of the body as well as of the mind and is not ruled by reason. We and our nervous systems are more primitive than our liberal educations and we are only trying to survive.
Toward the End of Ordinary Time, Leaving, p. 89
Just nine days after September 11th, 2001 writer and artist Elizabeth MacKiernan Miel and her husband nervously decided to go ahead with a planned trip to Paris. Over the course of two weeks, the couple visited their favorite neighborhoods, museums and many, many churches. Miel, a Christian with a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies, found herself filling journal after journal with reflections on war, prejudice, art, and foreign cultures.She examines honestly the impact of 9/11 on her own faith not only in God but in tolerance and pacifism:
The Event of September 11th without warning fills my mind again. Could hijackers fly a plane full of jet fuel into the Eiffel Tower? Into the tower of Notre Dame de Paris? The thought makes me feel nauseated. During this extraordinary and terrible month of September 2001 I have awakened several times in the mornings and vomited although I was not sick. It was almost like the morning sickness of pregnancy. I am also wondering how long it will be before our planes begin to bomb the city of Kabul. Everyone says it is bound to happen. This also makes me want to vomit.
–Notre Dame de Paris, p. 33
Towards the End of Ordinary Time documents one person’s spiritual journey in the days immediately after September 11th, touching on issues that are just as relevant today.
Elizabet
h MacKiernan Miel is a writer, scholar, translator and volunteer hospital and hospice chaplain living in Middletown, Connecticut. She studied Russian language and literature at Boston University, completed an M.Phil in linguistics at Yale University and a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies at the Hartford Seminary. She works part-time at Wesleyan University and serves as a lay minister at Grace Episcopal Church in Hartford, Connecticut. Her novel Ancestors Maybe was published under the name Elizabeth MacKiernan by Burning Deck Press. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications.