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Praise for Living on Border of the Holy

“You may not think of yourself as a priest and you may be in some doubt about what it means when others use the label. But by the time you have finished reading Bill Countryman’s work you will have discovered that you are one. You will have learned something about the joys and perils of serving as one. And you will have captured a glimpse of what it means to live ‘on the border of the Holy.’

“As a culture, we are more than a little lost. We are drawn to an encounter with the Holy, but we find it easy to shun its demands. We sporadically search for guidance, but we are suspicious of religion and religious leaders. . . Bill Countryman cuts through our malaise without being simplistic or obscure, grounding his vision in the larger priesthood of humanity.”

—Frederick W. Schmidt

Canon Educator, Washington National Cathedral, and author of A Still Small Voice: Women, Ordination, and the Church

“For anyone struggling with how to live in the thin places between heaven and earth, Dr. Countryman’s brilliant book offers hope, companionship, and the fruits of years of experience. His theory of a ‘fundamental human priesthood’ gives us all a compassionate guide to follow as we enter the borderlands, and it should help end the division between clergy and laity. Countryman’s human priesthood leads us into the future, where God calls us to be. This book could save the church.

—Nora Gallagher

author of Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith