PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Ronna Detrick left the church and its dogma nearly twenty years ago but took the stories of women with her. She combines her Master of Divinity degree with decades of coaching and spiritual direction, training and public speaking, corporate leadership and entrepreneurship. She shocked and delighted her audience in her provocative TEDx presentation on an Eve who inspires and empowers women instead of shaming and silencing them. After living most of her life in the Pacific Northwest, she is now just minutes from the Atlantic Ocean in Hampstead, NC, where she writes, drinks strong coffee, has beautiful conversations with her clients, and cannot be dissuaded from the belief that her two daughters are the most amazing humans on the planet.
Ronna is a modern-day demigoddess. Part-soul priestess, part-tenderhearted feminist, her words are a divine benediction to all who hear them. She has an instinctive knack for prying you open with the utmost compassion-and she helped me recognize my resistance to reconciling with the beliefs impressed on me throughout my childhood. Ronna is someone I trust implicitly and she is the perfect intermediary for this soul work. -Nikki Groom, Author of A Power Of Your Own When Ronna Detrick speaks, you can see her pulling down wisdom from St. Theresa to Simone de Beauvoir . . . to give you a gem of grace-or grit. And she can write-like a poet on a practical mission. Like a feminist with faith. -Danielle LaPorte, author of The Desire Map and How to Be Loving As I read Rewriting Eve, I kept thinking of all the women who have grown up in churches that don't allow women to be pastors, preachers, or priests. Then I thought about all the women who have gotten as far away as possible from Christian churches because of Christianity's widespread anti-feminism. Rewriting Eve is a tremendous gift to both groups. It opens up the Bible in a fresh, liberating, stereotype-challenging way. Whoever you are, you will feel that Ronna Detrick is your pastor in these pages, and the best Bible teacher you ever had. - Brian D. McLaren, American pastor, author, speaker, and leading figure in the emerging church movement
