Larger	The Book of Women's Sermons : Hearing God in Each Other's Voices Author: E. Lee Hancock, Kathleen Norris, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Alice Walker
	Book Information Publisher: Riverhead Trade Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9781573227834 - ISBN-10: 1573227838 Publication Date: 4/1/2000 Pages: 276

How do women speak to God, to each other, to the world?

This book explores the question with contributions by Kathleen Norris; Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.; Alice Walker; and more than thirty clergy and laywomen.



The first collection of its kind


Contributions from well-known community leaders across the country, as well as bestselling authors such as Kathleen Norris and Alice Walker


Incorporates a variety of faiths and viewpoints, and comments on both traditional topics and more modern-day issues like racism and homophobia

"If you're looking for divine inspiration or a graceful way to reaffirm your faith, this collection of sermons and talks from women priests and poets, rabbis and canons, ministers and professors may light your path. Many of these writings are inspired by Scripture and others grew out of the authors' individual searches for God. While traditionally women have played marginal roles in church leadership, this collection shows that in today's world the voices of religion increasingly are feminine. Here are Kathleen Norris, Lauren Artress, Joan E. Hemenway, Alice Walker and others, lifting their voices to heaven and, as Barbara Bedway writes, building 'bridges to God.'"-Chicago Tribune

"Women now make up nearly 50 percent of the enrollment of mainline Protestant, nondenominational, and Jewish seminaries, and many women are now moving beyond religious education roles and taking over pulpits. This collection of 35 sermons by ministers, rabbis, and laywomen from 13 denominations is a testament to this change."-The Washington Post

"As in life, it seems that women in pulpits talk about nurturing, or the lack of it. Parenting, homelessness, God, mystery, grief, even religion itself are under scrutiny here. Not in a preachy way, or as an abstract topic....Rather, with the intimacy and the folding-in of personal experiences that make some private conversations so memorable."-Los Angeles Times