Patricia's Passing Thoughts
Monday, June 8, 2009
I am writing this blog for the third time. Clearly there is much I have to learn about how this works. My book, "Work After Patriarchy: A Pastoral Persepctive" is now iityn publication. It is finally done! It is available at Xlibris, Barnes and Noble and it can be ordered at local bookstores. Jane Sabuga, my author representative at Xlibris was very helpful.
This week, needing a new car, we took the leap and bought one. I wanted an American car. I feel loyal to our industry and concerned that we hold on to our manufacturing capacity. I don't pretend to understand the economics or politics of it all. Call me nostaalgic, but I belong to an era when Detroit was at the leading edge of automotive production. We are not there any more. But our airlines, trains, and cars, our transportation network, is too important to abandon.
This week we were part of a congregation that participated in the ordination of Elizabeth Leavett who has been called to serve as designated co-pastor with Rob Mark at First Presbyterian church in Waltham. Tom and I have been serving there in the interim. The service was at Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church where I served as pastor for seventeen years. Liz graduated from Harvard Divinity School where I was Director of Ministerial Studies before Clarendon Hill. Quite a convergence for me. Took me back to my own ordination. Ordaining a woman is now commonplace, praise God!
We wish Liz a fulfilling and blessed ministry. She will be installed in Waltham on the 28th when our work there will come to a close.
Meanwhile, Sara Herwig who is certified to receive a call to ministry waits. She is a transgendered, lesbian women, an elder in the Waltham Church, who, like many in our GLBT community are not yet accepted for ordination. We long and work for the day when this too will be commonplace.
Penned by Patrica Budd Kepler at 2:23 PM