Confessions of a Pole Dancing Priest - Couverture souple

Chapman, REV Laura; Fitzgerald, Warren

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1916016588 ISBN 13 : 9781916016583

Editeur : Armley Press, 2024

Synopsis

Laura has a calling from God. But, like many other twentysomethings, she also loves booze, sex and funny cat videos. Will this make her a bad priest? The crusty white male custodians of the ministry think so. But Laura has different ideas.

At theological college, despite hard partying and frequent hangovers, Laura is a good enough student to point out where the scripture is a misogynistic 'crock of shite'.

Threatened with expulsion, Laura is silenced. For now. But she finds empowerment in pole fitness classes, and as a fully-fledged priest, older and wiser, she installs a pole in the vicarage, leaving visiting bishops agog.

Laura, an outsider herself, knows that outsiders are who the church is there for - from the old man barred from his lover's funeral to the young woman in need of a secret abortion. But even Laura's powers of inclusivity are challenged when she has to eulogise at a paedophile's funeral and is hit on by a randy undertaker.

Confessions of a Pole Dancing Priest, one woman's true-life odyssey of outrage through the patriarchal world of the Church, is full of whip-smart comebacks, stinging one-liners and scalpel-sharp observations. Laura's story moves from episodes which are frank, crude, funny and rebellious to a traumatic conclusion of almost biblical proportions that speaks to the wisdom and humanity in all of us.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Armley Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1916016588
• ISBN 13: 9781916016583
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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