God Is Not a Boy's Name: Becoming Woman, Becoming Priest - Softcover

Brakeman, Lyn G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498226272 ISBN 13: 9781498226271

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2016

Synopsis

Lyn Brakeman was among the first women to enter the ordination process in the Episcopal Church just after the General Convention voted in 1976 that women could be priests. The bishop of her diocese had voted against ordaining women priests and hospitality towards female aspirants was guarded at best. So why would a forty-year-old institutional naïf, suburban housewife, and mother of four enter such unfriendly territory to seek priestly ordination at a time when her personal life was in chaos? Things would have been easier had she been a man and had she not read Betty Friedan, not been headed for divorce, and not engaged in sins beginning with "a." How did she manage to stay this course? Brakeman offers no easy answers but tackles difficult issues--addiction, death and grief, divorce, the nature of priesthood, church politics, Christian feminism, and Jesus the Christ--with candor. Her story is held together by her spiritual connection to the voice of God from within and her growing conviction that the nature of divinity is gender-free; hence, theological language in sanctuary and classroom must reflect this truth in a balanced way.

About this title

About the Author:

The Rev. Lyn G. Brakeman is an Episcopal priest, pastoral counselor, and spiritual director, retired. She is the author of Spiritual Lemons: Biblical Women, Irreverent Laughter, and Righteous Rage (1997) and a blog.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1498226272
• ISBN 13: 9781498226271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192