Jana Reiss, Flunked Saint

Author Jana Riess spent a year attempting twelve different spiritual practicesâ??from fasting and praying at fixed hours to mindful cooking and charity. And she failed at every one. A lesson for our times, perhapsâ??Riess reports her findings on failure in a terrific memoir entitled Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving my Neighbor, out this week. I talked with Jana about the book