The Heart of a Pastor: A Life of Edmond Lee Browning - Softcover

Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0880283246 ISBN 13: 9780880283243

Publisher: Forward Movement Publications, 2010

Synopsis

When a genial, red-headed Texan, recently ordained an Episcopal priest, set off in 1959 with his wife and three young children to do missionary work in post-World War II Okinawa, he didnt know it was the beginning of a journey that would take him to assignments around the world and lead to his election as the twenty-fourth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. Edmond Lee Browning, known for his pastoral heart and his declaration of No outcasts, steered the church through challenging issuesracial, gender, and sexual equality, ordination of women to the episcopate, nuclear arms proliferation, warand bitter controversy as traditional understandings of faith, human sexuality, and Americas place among the nations came under siege. An unflinching advocate for the powerless, he advised not only his fellow Episcopalians, but U.S. presidents and world leaders in a ministry that spanned the continents and earned him international love and respect. Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrooks authorized biography, The Heart of a Pastor: A Life of Edmond Lee Browning tells this remarkable mans story through the Browning familys own words, excerpts from historical documents, and the lively anecdotes and intimate recollections of those who knew him best.

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About the Author:

Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook is a priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles, historian, educator, and practical theologian. She is currently professor of practical theology and religious education at Claremont School of Theology and professor of Anglican Studies at the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont, also known as Bloy House. She is the former academic dean and Suzanne Radley Hiatt professor of feminist pastoral theology and church history at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The author of numerous boojs and articles, Kujawa-Holbrook worked in the Browning administration for ten years from 1988-1998 as the Youth Ministries Coordinator and Program Director for Ministries with Young People. She lives in California with her husband Paul, daughter Rachel, and two cats, Moosie and Tasha.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forward Movement Publications
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0880283246
• ISBN 13: 9780880283243
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 414