Grace in the Rearview Mirror: Four Women Priests on Brokenness, Belonging, and the Beauty of God

"These stories are poignant, inspiring, moving and, above all, real."
—Michael Curry

Have you ever wondered if God is missing in the mundane? Four women priests have found God in the most unexpected places: in a dive bar, at the drugstore, and even at the grave. As we go about our everyday lives, the divine can feel elusive: grappling with the realities of cancer, infertility treatments, searching for a birth story, and honoring the divine in a child with autism. Yet God was there all along. This book is a guide to help you name God’s presence in your own history. Reflection questions and instructions are included for writing and sharing your spiritual autobiography in the hope that you, too, discover grace in the rearview mirror.

Kelly Demo is the associate rector at St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Overland Park, Kansas. In over twenty-five years of ministry, she has served as a diocesan missioner for youth in Kansas and Arkansas, led several parish youth groups, and worked for ten years with international aid organizations. Demo holds a bachelor of general science in theater from the University of Kansas and an MDiv from the Seminary of the Southwest.


Mary Luck Stanley graduated from Texas A&M University and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. She has been an Episcopal priest since 1997 and is co-rector of Old St. Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland.


Samantha Vincent-Alexander is a priest, wife, mother, writer, and sometimes yoga instructor and is constantly in search of cute but marginally sensible shoes.


Melissa Q. Wilcox is a graduate of Colby College and Virginia Theological Seminary. She serves as the associate rector at St. John's Episcopal Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.