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The Beacons of Larkin Street
Paperback
Publisher Price: $22.95
ISBN13: 9781944769482
Publisher: Apocryphile Pr
Published: Jan 25 2017
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
I'm fed up with the old boys club! Dot pounded a fist on the table. We need a woman minister this time!
There's a lot to love about the women of Saint Lydia's in San Francisco. Head Beacon Beka and her sidekick Dot turned out to be very good at getting rid of a predatory male pastor. Female church leaders were rare in 1976, but they found an ordained woman to shepherd their flock. The five Beacons, their prickly minister and a young Mexican prostitute all took risks, made mistakes and followed their hearts to set a wild new course for their historic interracial, interdenominational congregation in The City.
Judith Favor's novel lives next door to Armistead Maupin's San Francisco of the Seventies. In The Beacons we glimpse a radical Christianity--radical because women took over leadership of an interracial church. Favor gives an insider's look at what happened in a place few of us have imagined. --John Brantingham, author of Let Us All Now Pray to Our Own Strange Gods
Judith Favor offers us a delicious, saucy slice of mid-70s San Francisco. The Beacons provides generous servings of the beautiful city plus a kaleidoscope of characters, lifestyles and spiritual practices. Deeply textured and finely tuned, this novel crackles with lively energy. --Mary Atwood, Episcopal priest
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