Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family (The Young Clergy Women Project)
"The struggles Pershey reveals, both in becoming a mother and in repairing a marriage, could come off as sensational, but instead are the  backdrop for a good story about God acting in people's lives. It's not a  tell-all book. It's not a confession. It's testimony." -Fidelia's Sisters"When I open a book that some endorser has labeled  as Lamott-esque, I am almost inevitably disappointed, sothe last thing I expected to write about Pershey's engaging tidbit of a spiritual memoiris that it reminds me of Lamott's work...But it does." -Englewood Review of Books"It is lovely and real and funny and warm and wise.  Because we all struggle and we all rejoice, often at the same time." -Litchick"One could judge this book by how many chuckles it evokes. It is good in that department. One could also judge the book by its clever and at times provocative turns of phrases. It does well on that score, too. Both criteria would ignore the deeper narrative of this memoir by a young writer, wife, mother and pastor who grows in her acceptance of herself, including her body, as she matures in these roles. Pershey lets us see her vulnerabilities: her doubts about God, her anxieties, her (at one point) shaky marriage, her sense of inadequacy as a mother and pastor. Yet there s never TMI (too much information). Through it all shines the probing spirit of a real-world practical theologian. Judge this book by whether you wish its author were your pastor." ---The Christian Century, June 13, 2012 edition