Learning From Our Lives: Portraits Of Contemporary Women Clergy

Learning From Our Lives: Portraits Of Contemporary Women Clergy is an empirical guide for ministry and Christian living designed for women clergy, seminary students, and laity. It tells the story about the learning experiences of women clergy during and after their studies in various theological institutions and up to their call to full time parish ministry. In an unstable postmodern era, characterized by diminishing notions of reality and truth, perceptions of life’s meaning seem fragmented and subjective. Thus, religion is pushed to the peripheries creating a divide between sacred and secular lives. This book empowers women clergy to reconcile their secular and spiritual lives, so they can live balanced Christian lives. Also, it informs their professional practices, and enables them to meet the demands of their clergy roles. Church leaders and laity learn from the pastors whose ministry experiences are presented.