These gentle, often humorous, always profound vignettes of encounters with “near occasions of hope” will help women (and the men who love them) reframe Catholicism’s shattered glass as to how the Light can get in. This book, and the provocative questions at the end of each short chapter, may help keep us all “practicing,” keep us all “staying,” while we all use our gifts to build the “Church that can be.”
About the author
Karen E. Eifler is the co-director of the University of Portland’s Garaventa Center in Portland, Oregon, which “explores and deploys the fruits of faith, reason, and imagination that constitute the Catholic intellectual tradition to illuminate and enliven something that is implicit but often unregarded: the working of grace in human communities.” Eifler is a lifelong teacher who now teaches teachers to teach. She is the author of A Month of Mondays: Spiritual Lessons from the Catholic Classroom.