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The Book of Women's Sermons Book

By definition, the American sermon delivers spoken words of inspiration, comfort, and enlightenment. Here we have a collection of sermons from famous women writers (Alice Walker and Kathleen Norris) as well as religious leaders speaking from the uniquely feminine vision of the divine. Because women were traditionally relegated to the back row, the sidelines, or even the kitchens of their temples, churches, and religious classrooms, the sermons in this book often speak to those who feel powerless. Calls for feminine solidarity abound, but so do compassionate references to race, homosexuality, poverty, abuse, and violence. While God is a central theme, these women find evidence of their creator in making the bed, baking bread, surviving child abuse, and the births of their children. Read these beautiful words as if they were being spoken aloud, and without a doubt they will reach the contours of your heart and the core of your beliefs. --Gail HudsonRead More

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  • Product Description

    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

  • 1573227838
  • 9781573227834
  • Reverend E. Lee Hancock
  • 31 May 2000
  • G P Putnam's Sons
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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