Anger, envy, shame, possessiveness, powerlessness-qualities we'd just as soon do without! But there are gifts of the spirit to be found in these so-called lemons, Brakeman insists. By recreating the unsung of biblical women, Brakeman expands our understanding of their passions and our full range of emotions. Using the playful form of midrash, Brakeman brings these ancient women and their struggles to life: Sarah, "the snake," Mary, Jephthah's daughter, Susanna, the Syrophoenician Woman, Mary and Martha, and the Anointing Woman. Each of the eight chapters focuses on a particular emotion and includes a commentary, with suggestions for personal prayer and meditation, and guides for group rituals.

Spiritual Lemons : Biblical Women, Irreverent Laughter, and Righteous Rage

Lyn Brakeman

Religion & Spirituality

Innisfree Pr

Connecting ... disconnecting ... reconnecting. A very familiar pattern in our mobile lifestyle today and in our relationships.By going back to the age-old biblical stories -- in which people notoriously had their share of disconnections with each other and with God -- Rev. Lyn Brakeman proposes we can discover healing patterns for our own relationships.Starting from the rather extraordinary perspective that God is not the central character of the Bible, nor humanity, but the relationships between them, Brakeman draws us to take a deeper look at the universal cycle of breaking up and getting back together again.Using the Jewish tradition of interpretive storytelling known as midrash, Brakeman explores the relationships of some well-known -- and others not so familiar -- biblical players: Adam and Eve (the marriage relationship), Esther and the eunuch (a man/woman platonic relationship), Mary and Jesus (mother/son relationship), Herodias and Salome (mother/daughter relationship), David and Jonathan (men's relationships), and the women at the tomb (women's relationships).In our current culture of deepening social isolation, Brakeman's fresh insight into the patterns of these biblical interpersonal relationships offers fundamental keys to the healing of our own relationships. The God Between Us speaks to all religious traditions, and the addition of meditations, prayers, and questions for self-reflection at the end of each chapter add a rich dimension for individual or group use. Eminently useable for seminary and women's study programs.

The God Between Us: Healing the Wounds of Relationships

Innisfree Press

What if the major message we're supposed to "get" out of Scripture is not so much the story of God but the story of God's relationship to humanity, and how that affects our relationships with each other. From this premise, Brakeman uses the Jewish interpretive storytelling known as midrash to trace the healing patterns found in biblical relationships through cycles of intimacy, separation, and reunion. Includes study questions for small group discussion.

The God Between Us: A Spirituality of Relationships

Lynne Brakeman

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Spiritual Lemons : Biblical Women, Irreverent Laughter, and Righteous Rage

The God Between Us: Healing the Wounds of Relationships

The God Between Us: A Spirituality of Relationships