Meetin' In the Ladies' Room

Literature & Fiction

Symone, Reeta

Dramas & Plays

Epiphany Publishing

Review\n"Through the Kaleidoscope blends poetry and biology in a way that will both inspire and educate. It's a breath of fresh air in the conversation between faith and the sciences--and honors both as it unfolds." --Mike McHargue, co-founder of The Liturgists and host of Ask Science Mike 
"Jeffries' writing is inviting, weaving her love for cell biology with her love for God in powerful, poignant, thought-provoking stories. Her book opens us up to seeing the world of science and faith in a new way -- in a way that gives us the space to ask 'What if...' " --Rev. Donna Frischknecht Jackson, editor, Presbyterians Today magazine 
"Elizabeth has found a way to articulate the things we all think but rarely know how to put into words. Her blending of faith and science to draw parallels between what's going on in each of us at both a physical and metaphysical level is spellbinding. Each chapter will give you greater courage to face your deepest questions with confidence that life can and will emerge on the other side!"--Ryan May, Lead Pastor of The Net Church in Chattanooga, TN and author of Stuck in the Middle 
"Who would imagine that cellular biology would reveal truths about our spirituality and community? As she wrestles with her fundamentalist Christian upbringing, Jeffries deftly explores worlds big and small, weaving together stories and science to give us a new lens on faith." --Rev. Sue Washburn, Pastor of Reunion Presbyterian Church 
"In this book, Elizabeth Jeffries shows us a world that is less certain and rigid, but far more beautiful, full of life, and vibrant. Each page turn is a turn of the kaleidoscope, revealing unseen facets of all that is within and around us." --Blake Chastain, host of the Exvangelical Podcast\nGrowing up evangelical, Elizabeth Jeffries was certain about how the world worked. She had an unfalsifiable understanding of scripture, sin, God’s will, and the role of women, and she carried this same certitude into her graduate study of cell biology. There, rather than discover the simplicity of the natural world as she had hoped, she instead discovered the simplistic lenses through which she was viewing the world all along. In her first book, a work of deep reflection and vulnerable storytelling, Elizabeth invites readers to candidly tour her conservative Christian upbringing and the self-condemning doctrines that shaped her identity. With grace and intelligence, she critically engages her past without condemning it. She draws from her insights in the laboratory and offers a brilliant new set of metaphors from the field of cell biology to help reframe concepts like identity, community, certainty, perfectionism, and truth. The result is a rich tapestry of the scientific and the sacred.Through the Kaleidoscope is Elizabeth’s journey through the emergence, maturation, and collapse of the evangelical worldview—as well as her reenchantment with an inclusive truth too deep and too wide to ever be contained in just one set of religious metaphors.

Through the Kaleidoscope: How Exploring Cell Biology Transforms My Relationship with God

Jeffries, Elizabeth

Religion & Spirituality

Twenty-one timely, affecting essays by those who survived hardline, authoritarian religious ideology and uprooted themselves from the reality-averse churches that ultimately failed to contain their spirits. Winner of the 2019 Eos Award. In this necessary and revealing anthology, Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O'Neal collect original and previously published pieces about leaving Christianity. Examining the intersections of queerness, spiritual abuse, loss of faith, and the courage needed to leave one's religious community, these two social critics use a diverse collection of personal essays by apostates and survivors of religious trauma to boldly address the individual experiences and systemic dysfunction so common in conservative churches. Following the 2016 election of President Trump, Stroop coined the hashtag #EmptyThePews on Twitter as a call to take a moral stance against the kind of fundamentalist, authoritarian, or otherwise conservative churches that helped bring about the current political situation and all its cruelty, division, and hate. The hashtag continues to circulate with the eye-opening and often heartbreaking stories of those who found the resolve to leave evangelical, Mormon, Catholic, and other religious communities. Empty the Pews continues this campaign by sharing the unflinchingly honest stories of those who escaped hardline religious ideology--and how it failed to crush their spirits. Contributions include essays from a diverse group of established and up-and-coming writers, including Garrard Conley, Lyz Lenz, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Carmen Maria Machado, Isaac Marion, Maud Newton, Julia Scheeres, Linda Tirado, and more, as well as a foreword by Frank Schaeffer, the former Christian Right leader turned trenchant critic. A provocative anthology of undeniable importance and power, Empty the Pews reflects upon the disoriented worldview of harmful, narrow-minded religious ideologies and also offers a clear call to action: to those who refuse to be complicit in the bigotry and abuse present in so many churches, now is the time to empty the pews.

Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church

Stroop, Chrissy

O'Neal, Lauren

Christian Books & Bibles

ACT3 Facilitator Guide

Harlow, Jeff

The ACT3 Participant Guide for use in the 7-week Discovery Growth Groups.

ACT3 Participant Guide: Discover God's Calling for the Third Stage of Life

Harlow, Becky

Salati, Courtney

Pre-launch listing for Empty the Pews (available Dec 1st, 2019).

Empty the Pews

History

World

AFTER THE PREPPING YEARS OF YOUR YOUTH AND THE BUILDING YEARS OF EARLY ADULTHOOD, WHAT PLANS DOES GOD HAVE FOR YOU IN THE 3RD STAGE OF LIFE?\nGod has a plan for every season and stage of your life. He knows the plan(s) He has for you, and those plans slowly unfold and compound according to His perfect timing and infinite resourcefulness.\nThis same pattern is found in the creation of the universe. Rather than lay out all creation in a single instant, He paced Himself and sequentially built upon His work. So He is with His children. He gradually transforms us to be more and more like Christ, and He does so year by year, season by season, and stage by stage, until our final breath – and beyond. From glory to glory.\nThe Sacred Switch outlines this divine process and your role in it. It illustrates how God, in His perfect timing, will flip a switch deep within you and develop you from one stage of life to the next. And for those entering the 3rd Stage of Life, it will guide you to recognize and appreciate how resilient, mysterious, intricate, and beautiful His plan(s) truly are as you make the subtle shift from grabbing to giving.

The Sacred Switch: The Subtle Shift from Grabbing to Giving

FREEMAN, JENNIFER

Filled: His Presence, Our Purpose

Reed Briley, Tiffany

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