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Women have been among the most dynamic and successful ministers
in all Protestant denominations; but in divinity school, Sarah
Sentilles discovered that some of the best and brightest of them were
having trouble and even leaving the church altogether.
What was happening? To find out, she entered the lives of female
ministers -- women of various ages and races, in a range of churches --
and emerged with the first real portrait of what it's like to lead as a
woman of faith today.
Filled with humor, heartbreak, and triumph, the women's stories take us
from calls to the pulpit through ordinations and service. Despite many
churches' resistance -- conscious or not -- to re-imagining ministry as
a role for anyone but a man, many of these women are achieving
remarkable transformations in their congregations. In their inspiring
determination to perform the creative, life-giving work to which they
are called, these women illuminate a way that the church can change
itself to embrace what they offer. What's at stake is nothing less than
the future of the church itself.
pub date: 2008-04-14 | hardcover | 9780151013920 |
