Why Me, Lord?: One Woman's Ordination to the Priesthood with Commentary and Complaint

by Betty Bone Schiess

"On the hottest day of July, 1974, eleven of us were ordained as the first women priests in the Episcopal Church. We were setting in motion a new feminist reformation which would change forever the way church and society viewed and treated women--or so we thought.'"--from the Preface

Reverend Betty Bone Schiess' engagingly written memoir is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of religious study as well as to feminist study and to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081560744X
• ISBN13: 9780815607441
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"