Wide Open Spaces: Women Exploring Call through Stories and Reflections

by Carol Henderson (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846949364
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	07/16/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	472 KB

About the Author

Carol Henderson is a writer, teacher and coach based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her workshops, coaching and editing have shaped the work of countless authors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1

Editor's Note Carol Henderson 2

Introduction Susan Steinberg 5

Stretching, Struggling, Rejoicing Liz Dowling-Sendor 9

The Roux Marilyn Hein 32

More Than Skin Deep Marcia Mount Shoop 44

Questioning Believer: A Journey Into Faith Nancy Rozak 54

Long Black Robes Caroline Craig Proctor 66

A Change of Life Betty Berghaus 83

Searching For Home Katie Ricks 91

A Potter's Story Cely Chicurel 106

Life at the Crossroads Debbie Kirk 115

Without a Hurt, the Heart is Hollow Judy Stephens 126

Only Grace Susan Steinberg 142

About the Contributors 158

Afterword, Carol Henderson 163