Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Alban Books
Pages: 221
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Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-1-56699-431-6 • Paperback • October 2012 • $29.00 • (£21.99)
978-1-56699-548-1 • eBook • October 2012 • $25.50 • (£19.99)
After serving two United Methodist churches outside Chicago, and being ordained an Elder along the way, Bromleigh McCleneghan recently began as the Associate for Congregational Life at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. She is a graduate of Boston University and the U of C. She and her husband Josh have two daughters, Fiona and Calliope. Lee Hull Moses is the pastor of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Albion College and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where she was a Disciples Divinity House scholar. She and her husband Rob have two children, Harper and Jonathan.
Moses and McCleneghan have crafted a theology of family that is smart, faithful, and wonderfully expansive. There’s a place for the how-to guides that cover the logistics of parenting. But there’s also a place for Hopes and Fears, which reflects on the soul of parenting: the top of the bedside stack.
— Katherine Willis Pershey, author of "Any Day a Beautiful Change"
Hopes and Fears injects some much-needed spiritual wisdom into the sometimes wild, always messy world of baby boot camp—and beyond. Amid the diapers, day care, and discipline, McCleneghan and Moses assure us that God is present in surprising ways. The result is a book that both comforts and challenges. Hopes and Fears is warmly accessible even as it takes us to remarkable new places.
— MaryAnn McKibben Dana, author of "Sabbath in the Suburbs: A Family's Experiment with Holy Time"
This is a book you can pick up when you are sleep-deprived and emerge laughing with recognition and buoyed by grace. The authors are honest and generous in sharing their parental struggles, joys, hopes and fears. They welcome us into their sticky-floor kitchens and surprise us with moving reflections on faith.
— Rev. Heidi Neumark, Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan
When looking at the broad landscape of Christianity, we recognize that we stand in an amazing time. Women, who juggle the worries of pregnancy, the thrill of babies, and the exhaustion of breastfeeding, also proclaim the Word of God, pour the waters of baptism, and break the bread of life. In Hopes and Fears, Bromleigh McCleneghan and Lee Hull Moses acknowledge this revolutionary moment through showing us how ordinary it is. By cultivating the rich ground of motherhood and ministry they present us with an abundance of messy, beautiful, and human theology.
— Carol Howard Merritt