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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Every religious vocation is personal and particular and Dawn’s ordination was a step on a life-time journey of searching for God’s will; a search which took her from the exploration of a career in the theatre to retail to Bart’s hospital toa missionary college to theology at Cambridge to chaplaincy to undergraduates to life in religious community to leaving that life and entering another religious community which she eventually had to leave though it was not her wish to do so. Along the way she was licensed as a Church of England Woman Worker and as a Deaconess she was later ordained deacon and finally priest; and she lived under vows in an experimental form of community. She wanted the story of her vocation to be made available as a record and a testimony not only for those who knew and loved her but for posterity. Dawn wrote several versions of her story and left enough material in talks and letters for it to be possible to follow the outline of her vocational journey until her departure from Wells in 2008. Readers will find that the early chapters of her memoir are much fuller and show the fruits of Dawn’s mature reflection. In contrast the later chapters are thinner and reveal some surprising omissions for example Dawn says little about the effect on her of being expelled from the Community of the Sisters of the Church in January 1990 though there is evidence from her journals and from conversations I remember having with her at the time to suggest she found this extremely painful. (LL)