As we begin 2020, the books I am reading gives a clue to the shifting concerns that push and pull me. Annotations as I am inspired. Please be patient re line spacing. I am trying to understand new wordpress blocks.

Congress of Women: Religion, Gender and Kyriarchal Power by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza who was my tutor and advisor during seminary at the Episcopal Divinity School. Her profound analysis of the interface between theology and political culture remains cutting edge and her nurturing of the next generation of theologians is hope-filled. I am reading her current work in order to sharpen my thinking as I seek to write an Op-ed piece which asks us to think about the complex and negative impact of naming God as male, King, Master, Lord, Father, on the wellbeing of all women and children as well as on men without power. The other side of my thinking champions the life giving impact of the Great Mystery of being human in an infinite Universe.
The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance by Dorothee Soelle

Sounds of the Eternal: Morning and Evening Prayer by John Phillip Newell

Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee 

Writing Hard Stories: by celebrated memoirists who shaped art from trauma by Melanie Brooks

The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah Broom