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So why would a forty-year-old institutional naif, suburban housewife, and mother of four enter such unfriendly territory to seek priestly ordination at a time when her personal life was in chaos? Things would have been easier had she been a man and had she not read Betty Friedan, not been headed for divorce, and not engaged in sins beginning with «a.» How did she manage to stay this course?
Brakeman offers no easy answers but tackles difficult issues–addiction, death and grief, divorce, the nature of priesthood, church politics, Christian feminism, and Jesus the Christ–with candor. Her 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 gender-free; hence, theological language in sanctuary and classroom must reflect this truth in a balanced way.