This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers
Overview
This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from the many books available on ministry. It is a book both honest about the challenges of the vocation and reflective of its joy from two people still pastoring.
Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible variety of a pastor’s day. The chapters move from comedy to pathos, story to theology, Scripture to contemporary culture. This Odd and Wondrous Calling is both serious and fun and is ideal for those who are considering the ministry or who want a better understanding of their own minister’s life.
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- Presents an honest discussion about the challenges of the vocation
- Covers a diversity of subjects
- Provides a better understanding of a minister’s life
One of the most human and most helpful books on ministry that I know. With moving, often humorous stories Lillian Daniel and Martin Copenhaver open windows onto the major and the mundane in the life of a minister—shaking hands at the door, navigating a clergy marriage, handling money, visiting the hospital. Here is ordained ministry in all its depths, its ordinariness, and its joys.
—Samuel T. Lloyd III, dean, Washington National Cathedral
My dictionary doesn’t have enough enthusiastic adjectives for this book, which I adore . . . Everyone who loves the church or struggles with the church or is just plain curious about the church will relish every page.
—Lauren F. Winner, assistant professor of Christian spirituality, Duke Divinity School
Honest, wise, deeply personal, profoundly theological, and—what’s more—delightfully written.
—Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
- Title: This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers
- Authors: Lillian Daniel, Martin B. Copenhaver
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 255
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Pastoral theology; Daniel, Lillian; Copenhaver, Martin B., 1954-
- ISBNs: 9780802864758, 0802864759, 1467434175, 9781467434171
- Resource ID: LLS:THSDDWNDRSCLLNG
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-01-03T03:45:01Z
Lillian Daniel is the senior minister of First Congregational Church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and a host of the Chicago-based television program 30 Good Minutes. She is also the author of Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony.
Martin B. Copenhaver is senior pastor of Wellesley Congregational Church in Wellesley, Massachusetts.