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Product: I Love the Church, I Hate the Church: The Female Clergy’s Guide to Dismantling the Patriarchy Sister, you just found your people.

Every female minister knows, deep within her heart, she has a special calling to serve God's people. There is a ministry you were put on this earth to fulfill – something only you can do. Your passion and your servant’s heart have led you to this point, and you have only just begun to step into your power in service to the church you love so much. But the church's patriarchal roots run deep. With one hand, the institutional church raises you up, lauding your leadership and praising your calling; and with the other hand it tears you down, silencing your voice and breaking your heart.

Stuck in this crazy-making cycle you wonder if it is all worth it. Maybe you should just walk away, save yourself and find another way to serve God and the people She loves.

Sister, you have been trying to do alone what we can only do together. In this book, you will find:

An invitation to reckon with the ways the church has wounded you.

Tools for recovering from the psychological abuse you have suffered at the hands of the church.

Access to a powerful sisterhood working to undo the patriarchal strongholds that are killing the church.

A process for reclaiming your own spiritual authority.

Practices for discerning, envisioning, and co-creating the ministry you were born to incarnate.

If you love the church, hate the church, and are not ready to give up on the church, this book is for you.

Product: A Pastoral Rule for Today: Reviving an Ancient Practice

The pastoral office has always been a difficult calling. Today, the pastor is often asked to fulfill multiple roles: preacher, teacher, therapist, administrator, CEO. How can pastors thrive amid such demands?
What is needed is a contemporary pastoral rule: a pattern for ministry that both encourages pastors and enables them to focus on what is most important in their pastoral task.
This book, coauthored by three experts with decades of practical experience, explains how relying on a pastoral rule has benefited communities throughout the church's history and how such rules have functioned in the lives and work of figures such as Augustine, Calvin, Wesley, and Bonhoeffer. It also provides concrete advice on how pastors can develop and keep a rule that will help both them and their congregations to flourish.