She shares her journey “to discover and relate to the Feminine Divine, to heal feminine wounds, to unearth courage, and to reclaim her power …” Sue Monk Kidd, acclaimed author of The Secret Life of Bees (2001), is however, about much more than woman-friendly scripture and liturgy. I shook my head and said “Seriously?” Yes, the text is of its time but it is not of our time or our place. The married woman … has to worry about the world’s affairs and devote herself to pleasing her husband.” ( 1 Corinthians 7:32-35) “… an unmarried woman, like a young girl, can devote herself to the Lord’s affairs all she need worry about is being holy in body and spirit. The reading from Paul to the Corinthians proclaimed: On the evening of the day I finished reading The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, I went to Mass. It shows a way forward for those whose faith is strong but who find the version of Christianity on offer critically lacking. This spiritual memoir is by turns reassuring, confronting, challenging and hope filled. “Women who struggle for justice in religious structures, who dare to save the Divine from exclusive masculinity, who seek truth instead of defending dogma …”: it is for these women that Sue Monk Kidd shares her story – of awakening, of enlightenment, of incontrovertible truth. Sue Monk Kidd invokes the suffragettes, the saints, the mystics and the scriptures in offering a richer, deeper, more satisfying theology than most of us have encountered, writes Tracey Edstein. Our Acknowledgement of Indigenous Peoples.
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