The reading from Paul to the Corinthians proclaimed: On the evening of the day I finished reading The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, I went to Mass. It shows a way forward for those whose faith is strong but who find the version of Christianity on offer critically lacking. This spiritual memoir is by turns reassuring, confronting, challenging and hope filled. “Women who struggle for justice in religious structures, who dare to save the Divine from exclusive masculinity, who seek truth instead of defending dogma …”: it is for these women that Sue Monk Kidd shares her story – of awakening, of enlightenment, of incontrovertible truth. Sue Monk Kidd invokes the suffragettes, the saints, the mystics and the scriptures in offering a richer, deeper, more satisfying theology than most of us have encountered, writes Tracey Edstein. Our Acknowledgement of Indigenous Peoples.
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