any day a beautiful change: We Gather Together

11.22.2009

We Gather Together

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RichardNov 22, 2009 05:33 PM
Wonderful job! Thank you for sharing your debut.
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Helen HasselNov 22, 2009 07:13 PM
GOOD FOR YOU!!!!! Love you!
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SusieNov 22, 2009 07:56 PM
You are pretty amazing :)
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mollyNov 22, 2009 10:59 PM
This is so beautiful, in so many ways! Thanks for sharing it.
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MarieNov 23, 2009 05:38 AM
I can't believe you got through it-last time I played my lips jumped off my face and ran down the street. I am so impressed you were really still very good!!! :)
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ElizabethNov 23, 2009 08:26 AM
sniff sniff. That was lovely.
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goose and bearNov 23, 2009 11:12 AM
this is awesome! thanks so much for sharing.
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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.

"The experiences of women as ministers are relatively new in the 2,000 years of Christian history. 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

11.22.2009

We Gather Together

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