"This Odd And Wondrous Calling" a Review
I've read a lot books about what it means to be a pastor, but few of them capture what it's really like. Instead they typically paint a picture of what pastors should be doing in an ideal world, and with a great deal of spiritual enlightenment. It's not that I don't enjoy reading these books, it's just that I generally feel chastened somehow while I am in the midst of them. I find myself wondering if I will ever discover the "secrets" that the author has discovered, and then be able to write my own sagacious pastoral book. So far, I have been unsuccessful in both arenas. This Odd And Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers is a different sort of book about being a pastor. First, it's written by two very different pastors: Lillian Daniel, a thirty-something female pastor, and Martin B. Copenhaver, a sixty-something male pastor, who both happen to serve within the United Church of Christ. Second, This Odd And Wo...