The Words of Her Mouth: Psalms for the Struggle - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0829820248 ISBN 13: 9780829820249

Publisher: Pilgrim Press, 2020

Synopsis

A Balm for the Soul.

The Words of Her Mouth: Psalms for the Struggle listens to and wrestles with ancient poems through the lenses of modern women: Martha Spong, Mihee Kim-Kort, Beth Richardson, Alicia Crosby, Marilyn Pagán-Banks, Julia Seymour, Kentina Washington-Leapheart, Jennifer Garrison Brownell, Katie Mulligan, and Layton Williams.

This collection of 150 psalms is a balm in this season of spiritual strife and political struggle. Each original psalm invites the reader into honest space in which lament is heard, love is affirmed, and the body is unashamed before God.

As Martha Spong explains in the book's foreword, "I wondered what women writers might say in conversation with the psalms in this season of child separation and climate change and #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter. I invited nine women whose faith and writing I value to join me in discovering what the psalms say to us and what psalms are inside us."

About this title

About the Author

Martha Spong is an author, pastor, and coach committed to sustaining clergywomen in their work and amplifying diverse voices in conversations about faith, particularly People of Color and LGBTQIA+ people. As Executive Director of RevGalBlogPals, she emphasized ecumenical collaboration and created space for reflections on the intersection of faith and public life in a weekly feature, "The Pastoral is Political." Under her leadership, RevGalBlogPals received the United Church of Christ's Antoinette Brown Catalyst Award for providing a provocative space that advances women in ministry. Martha lives in Pennsylvania with her wife and family.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pilgrim Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0829820248
• ISBN 13: 9780829820249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Spong Martha