Faith Evolving - Print.
Faith Evolving - Print.
Faith Evolving: A Patchwork Journey - 4th edition
By Trish McBride
Soft cover 188pp
7" x 10"
71,424 Words
Re-published: 19 April 2024
Language: English
ISBN: 9798884062061
[Stock arriving early May 2024]
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Description
Trish’s three books – Faith Evolving, Exploring the Presence and A Love Quilt – are being republished in 2024.
Read together, they document Trish’s 75-year life and faith journey from childhood to her 80s – a unique longitudinal record of women’s spirituality and thinking. They are both spiritual biography and contextual theology.
Along the way, Trish moves from a traditional Catholic faith to embracing feminist theology and on into a post-denominational, inclusive, integrated Gospel-centred spirituality. She has used a patchwork metaphor across all three books, connecting writings of many colours, shapes and textures.
Her purpose in all three has been to encourage others to ponder and record their own faith journeys.
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Faith EvolvingThe hard times are well and truly over and life is enjoyable and mostly peaceful. Good health helps with that, as do plentiful silence, solitude and simplicity – and more quilt-making. Another ten grandchildren have come along, all delicious buds on the family tree.
For me now God permeates everything as Life-Force, and is personally communicating and relational in Jesus, my life companion, and is Holy Mystery. Perhaps this approaches what the Church Fathers were trying to get at when they defined the Trinity!” Trish, From the Preface to the Third edition
“This book is divided into three sections, each prefaced with a reflection on how she perceives, retrospectively, her faith journey:
- Clothes-line Theology: 1974–1986
- After That: 1987–1994
- Turangawaewae: 1995–2005
About the author
Writing highlights include an international religious journalism prize (London Tablet, 1994), publishing Faith Evolving: A Patchwork Journey (2005) which traces 30 years of her God-journey, and Exploring the Presence: More Faith Patches (2011). Trish wrote the lead article in the June 2016 issue of Presence, the Spiritual Directors International Journal, US, and has had numerous other articles published. She has also contributed to five of the Catholic-based series of NZ theology books published by Accent Publications.
She is passionate about Gospel justice for marginal people, the interaction of faith and mental well-being, recognition of common ground with other faiths, quilting, family, friendships and her 19 amazing grand-children.
Contents
Title and Copyright
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Preface to the Third Edition
Clothes-line Theology: 1974 – 1986
- 41 Koromiko Road
- Magnificat
- Community
- Being Small
- A Blood Donor’s Prayer
- About Loving
- If
- Vine
- Birth
- Commitment
- Forgiveness
- Al-Anon and a Catholic
- Worth
- Cana
- Woman
- Fruitfulness
- Honoured
- Retreats
- Incarnation
- Fishing
- Duckling
- Hunger
- Encounter
- Burdens
After That: 1987– 1994
- Change
- Garden
- Ruach
- Gold
- Integration
- Storm
- Chaos
- The Flower
- Betrayal
- Clay
- Listening
- Time
- Presence
- In Deep
- Waikanae
- Cave
- The Invitation
- An Intrinsic Moral Evil?
- Humility and Me
- Mending
- Straightening
- A Tiger Named Susanna
- Waiting
- Whatsoever You Do …
- A tribute to AIDS Campaigner Tom O’Donoghue
Turangawaewae: 1995 – 2005
- The Wash
- June
- Sharing the Journey – Growing in God through Spiritual Direction
- Extrication!
- Women’s Experience of Church Response to Family Violence – towards a theology for abusive marriages
- Quotes to Ponder
- Recommendations
- Recommended Reading
- Ambivalence
- Aftermath
- Journey with AIDS
- Candlelight Memorial
- Good Friday
- Cairn
- Reproach
- First Australasian Conference on Sexual Abuse by Health Professionals and Members of the Clergy
- Of Poppies and Vines …
- Life
- Seeing
- Outrage
- A Theology of Forgiveness
- Discovering Decolonisation
- A Letter
- Trinity
- ‘Come and See!’
- Engaging with the Scriptures
- Journey with the Jews
- Revisiting Original Sin
- Starting
- Dancing
- Living Springs – Towards a Just Future
- Open Discipline, Consumer Rights and the Churches
- Visitors
- A Clergy Wife Speaks Out
- The Violent Church
- Consenting Adults or Organisational Incest?
- Millennium
- Unless You Become as Little Children …
- The Emperor’s New Clothes
- Reflections on a Transition
- Potential
- Fierce Feathers
- Proclaiming Liberty to Captives…
- Therapy
- A Quaker Saint
- Transformation –
- Community Care – the Good News
- Ministering to Church Leavers
- Celebrating Susanna
- Another Response to Jacquie’s Daughter, Maybe for When She’s a Little Older
- Dancing with Gratitude
- The Table Ministry of Jesus
- Psychotherapy as Sacrament
- And Now …
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Appendix 1 — Summary of J W Fowler’s Stages of Faith
Appendix 2 — Power and Equality Wheels
Glossary
About the Author