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Lyn Brakeman Was Among The First Women To Enter The Ordination Process In The Episcopal Church Just After The General Convention Voted In That Women Could Be PriestsThe Bishop Of Her Diocese Had Voted Against Ordaining Women Priests And Hospitality Towards Female Aspirants Was Guarded At BestSo Why Would AFortyyearold Institutional Naif, Suburban Housewife, And Mother Of Four Enter Such Unfriendly Territory To Seek Priestly Ordination At ATime When Her Personal Life Was In Chaos? Things Would Have Been Easier Had She Been AMan And Had She Not Read Betty Friedan, Not Been Headed For Divorce, And Not Engaged In Sins Beginning With AHow Did She Manage To Stay This Course? Brakeman Offers No Easy Answers But Tackles Difficult Issuesaddiction, Death And Grief, Divorce, The Nature Of Priesthood, Church Politics, Christian Feminism, And Jesus The Christwith CandorHer 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 Genderfree, Hence, Theological Language In Sanctuary And Classroom Must Reflect This Truth In ABalanced WayLyns Memoir Is AContemporary Journal Of ASoul ...Only More SoIt Is The Journey Of AWoman Fully Alive In Body, Mind, And Spirit, AJourney Into Self, History, Vocation, Community, AdulthoodFiercely Honest, Even Shocking At Timesat Least To This Monkand Often Howlingly Funny, It Speaks Of Faith, Betrayal, Forgiveness, Resistance, And HomecomingDaughter, Wife, Mother, Feminist, Counselor, Priestlyns Is ALife Offered In All Its Wonderful Messiness And Raw Integrity, Touched Over And Over By GraceIt Is AMirror Of Our Own Messy Journey Into Christrobert Sevensky, Ohc, Superior, Order Of The Holy Cross Lyn Brakeman, Episcopal Priest And Spiritual Counselor, Invites Us To Join Her On The Path Of Reflection And Remembrance As She Tells Us, With Devastating Honesty And Selfdeprecating Humor, About Her Journey To The Episcopal Priesthood, And Her Parallel Journey Into The Radical Inclusiveness Of The GospelShe Does This With Grace And Blessingnot Pointing AFinger, But Welcoming Allchilton Knudsen, Eighth Bishop Of Maine If Anne Lamott And Elizabeth Johnson Had Produced ALiterary Love Child It Would Be This Feisty, Often Funny, And Deeply Wise Autobiographical Narrative Of ASpiritual Quest From An Alcoholic Yet Loving Home Through AMarriage With Four Children, Divorce, And The Arduous Journey To H'