any day a beautiful change: Holy Cow

5.28.2009

Holy Cow

Okay, so I'm spending a week with Eugene Peterson this summer and therefore do not get to whine about not getting to go to cool conferences with cool people this summer. BUT. Thanks to a little bit of harmless procrastination, I just happened upon the Faculty list for the 2009 Glen Workshop. Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler have been teaching a songwriting workshop there for a couple years now, so no big surprise. But guess who is the staff Pastor for the week? Debbie Blue, who has quickly become the preaching equivalent of Over the Rhine in my nerdy universe. As much as I would totally love to be there (so not going to happen, I'm already off for a month this summer!), I can't tell you how giddy it makes me to think that these three people that I respect so much - who have had such a real impact on my life - are going to spend the week together. They are going to have some great conversations, I just know it.

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Sarah K.May 28, 2009
Oh, wow. I had never even heard of the Glen Workshop til now. It sounds completely amazing. I have always taken really practical continuing ed. I love the idea of taking something so inspiring. Can't this year, but would love to in the future!
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MarieMay 28, 2009
so i don't get all of the nerdiness here, but still...WOW. sorry. but still don't count out the other nerds you will hang out with...namely your sister and brother-in-law :)
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Helen HasselMay 29, 2009
How FUN!!! That sounds incredible!

So...this month off...Will it be in Ohio???
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Advance Praise for Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family

“I expect a good memoir to be wise and funny. A good pastoral memoir should bear witness to God’s goodness. I don’t normally expect one chapter to force me to read another, or to care so passionately about characters. The glory of this one, in particular, is its incarnationally-shaped bodiliness. We have a new writer to whom we must pay attention.”
Jason Byassee, author of The Gifts of the Small Church, senior pastor of Boone United Methodist Church, and Fellow in Theology & Leadership, Duke Divinity School.

“Pershey writes beautifully about hard things. This is not so much a book about ministry as it is about life. She examines her motherhood, her marriage and her ministry as they are all unfolding, in their tender beginnings, all three, works in progress. Despite being a memoir of faith, this honest book is a sanctimony-free zone.”

Lillian Daniel, author of This Odd and Wondrous Calling and senior pastor of First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn.

"In Any Day A Beautiful Change, Pershey shows us with candor and grace how motherhood, the chaos and delights of family, marriage, and our bodies enrich our interpretations of ministry, scripture and liturgy. I’m especially grateful for this memoir as a woman who has experienced pregnancy in the pulpit, but it is a gift for anyone who longs to reflect deeply on life and the church. It’s funny and honest and wise."
Debbie Blue, author of Sensual Orthodoxy and From Stone to Living Word and Founding Pastor, House of Mercy

"Katherine Willis Pershey walks alongside all of us who delight in Eat, Pray, Love, but yearn for a reflection on a different sort of path. With theological depth and insight, Pershey struggles with the passions of life, the heartbreaks of relationship, the worries of parenting, and the truths of vocation. Through all the twists and turns of her emerging marriage, ministry, and motherhood, she leads us to glimpses of reconciliation and wholeness."
Carol Howard Merritt, author of Tribal Church and Reframing Hope and a pastor at Western Presbyterian Church

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5.28.2009

Holy Cow

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