women clergy

Newly ordained Episcopal minister Clare Fergusson must prove herself as a leader to the members of her church, but her blunt manner has earned her a chilly reception and when a newborn baby is abandoned on the church stairs, Clare must find a way to sort through the secrets and silence that surround the town.

Reverend Clare Fergusson teams up with her friend Russ Van Alystyne to try and find the killer who is stalking the members of her parish.

Four people finds their lives brought together at a midweek church service while searching for what is missing from their lives and find a way to help one another reconnect with their lives and spirituality.

Lily Connor is shocked to find evidence that the Book of Light, a biblical document purportedly containing the transcribed words of Jesus, has been found, and that there is a group of people who will do anything to keep it from being revealed.

Examines the opportunities for religious service, including ordination as ministers and rabbis, that are open to women and discusses role models and finding one's "calling.".

"In the small community of Millers Kill, gossip spreads like wildfire. So when Russ Van Alstyne's wife kicks him out of the house, he figures it's nobody's business but his own - until a neighbor stops by and finds Mrs. Van Alstyne's butchered corpse on the Kitchen floor. To the townspeople and church folk, the murder is proof that the whispered rumors about the police chief and the priest were true. But nothing is as it seems in Millers Kill, where betrayal twists old friendships - and evil waits inside quaint white clapboard farmhouses."--from back cover.

Set in the early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl and crime, remorse, and suffering are the consequences.

Reverend Clare Fergusson teams up with her friend Russ Van Alystyne to try and find the killer who is stalking the members of her parish.