Review
Here are splendid call stories from dedicated, gifted women who serve and lead the church. Each explores her faith journey in personal, sometimes intimate fashion-the quotidian and the mystical mix in the routine and the transcendent moments beyond time. These accounts of faith, hope, and love summon all of us to deeper life in the Spirit. --(Louis B. Weeks, President Emeritus of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond and Charlotte)
Product Description
How does God call us? The answers are as different as we are. Sometimes God summons us through the Church and sometimes in spite of the Church. In the depths of loss and confusion God speaks to us, beckoning us to follow an unexplored path. While we are heading in one direction, God surprises us with an undeniable invitation to go another way. Wide Open Spaces includes essays by women who have experienced and responded to God's call in all of these ways. The ministers and Christian educators whose stories fill this book testify to God's grace in the midst of their lives as single people in family-centered contexts, as women whose callings also include parenthood and marriage, and as those who the Church refuses to fully accept. Discrimination, harassment and homophobia pierce the narratives in this book. Yet this is not a book about defeat.
