books by Rebecca Ann Parker

books by Rebecca Ann Parker

books:

Rebecca Ann Parker

Blessing the World: What Can Save Us Now

Rebecca Ann Parker, Robert Hardies

Skinner House Books, 2006

Remarkable essays
Rebecca Ann Parker is now the president of Starr King - the Unitarian Universalist seminary at Berkeley. The collection of essays in this volume touch on a number of different issues. They are thought provoking and many of them heart wrenching. I found myself crying ...

Proverbs of Ashes : Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us

Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker

Beacon Press, 2002

Insightful Writing Dealing with Issues of Abuse and Religion
This was a provocative book by two feminist theologians who shared their personal stuggles of early sexual abuse and the effect it had on their adult lives. The honesty of each is gripping. They also make a very credible tie between abuse and violence being tolerated ...

Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire

Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker

Beacon Press, 2008

Paradise permeates all of Creation
Images of Jesus's crucifixion did not appear in churches until the tenth century. Why not? The crucified Christ is so important to Western Christianity, how could it be that images of his suffering and death were absent from early churches? With these questions began a ...