Burlington Public Library

"A calling from God. A childhood love. A woman who must choose between the two. Ministry minded Phoebe Albright has never concerned herself with the frivolities of love. She is fully committed to becoming a pastor, with or without a husband. Nothing will deter her, not even her childhood nemesis turned handsome Michigan State Constable. Will Caffey has never wavered in his faith, not even during his darkest hours in the French trenches of the Great...

Ever since she was a little girl, Journee Carter wanted to be a preacher, just like her father. And when she grows up, that's exactly what she sets out to do. Journee knows there is opposition to women in the pulpit--especially single young women. Yet she never expects her own father to be one of her biggest obstacles.

The sleepy English village of Dibley is plunged into an uproar when its new vicar turns out to be a woman. And not just any woman, but the unconventional Geraldine Granger who brings her own earthy spirit and humor to the pulpit.

"Profound essays on nurturing life while facing a terminal diagnosis, from the dedicated humanitarian and young mother whose writings The New York Times called "nothing less than a master class in how to be fully human". "I am holding both my hope and my grief together in the same hands. It is a loose hold, looser than I am accustomed to. My love is so much bigger than me." Nonprofit leader and minister Tallu Schuyler Quinn has spent her adult life...