d, Eric, reading Scripture from a paperback Bible she bought at Walgreen for $11.95, the words began to mean something new to her. Before long she and Eric were dedicated members of a radical Christian religious community called Fountain of Joy, a fellowship that some called a cult, but that Briggs saw as a supportive, loving environment in which a community of people stuck together to study the word of God and strive to serve Him as best they could.

Fountain of Joy was something luxury bazaar watches of a hippie church, led by a group of elders and consisting of about 40 families watches for ladies who lived by the Scriptures. Women could not be elders; the Bible stated that women should defer to men swiss made watches in all matters. So Carolyn and her women friends concentrated on raising their families and loving their husbands, all for the greater glory of God. They genuinely looked after one another, taking turns cleaning house or caring for the children if a woman took sick. In their eternally beaming selflessness, they even nurse one another infants.

Briggs thrived on the support and acceptance she found at Fountain of Joy, but her enchantment with it and, more significantly, with God Himself didn last forever. What makes Dark World an exceptional book is that as clear eyed as Briggs is about her experience (she was a deeply religious Christian for more than 20 years), she also fully understands the ways in which her religion benefited and enriched her. Anyone can reject true believers as mindless Bible thumpers, but Briggs never takes that route; her hard earned sophistication about spiritual matters isn hollow.

That at least partly because Briggs comes clean about the doubts she had even in the years she was most fiercely watch luxury devoted to her faith. She admits to feeling despair at seeing how much the other wives seemed to love their husbands, spiritually and physically. Briggs considered her husband (the two are now divorced) her best friend, but her sexual attraction to him had faded long ago. Instead she funneled all her romantic feelings toward God.

Briggs is also refreshingly open about the ways in which her faith was somewhat childlike and oversimplified: worried that God was mocked in some way every time I did not obey Him. And the opposite was true as well. Every time I obeyed God, the angels would fall at His feet in adoration. ( God, you are truly great. Even Carolyn obeys you! I imagined the cosmos swirling about me, all eyes on the little gladiator of faith.

But the constraints of Briggs faith and her church weren lost on her, even when she was most firmly in the grasp of Fountain of Joy. When she became pregnant with her second child, her nausea was so bad that she couldn hold down her food, and her weight dropped dangerously. Still, the fellowship frowned on medications of any type, which meant she didn feel free to take the anti nausea drugs that had helped her through her first pregnancy safely. Instead, the congregation prayed over her and urged her to trust in the Lord. He did come through (the baby was born healthy), but when Briggs later

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