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#820181   book
Chapters:  The brightest and best;  Our season of disrespect - not so great expectations;  The lesson from the twenty-minute honeymoon;  Preparation for the journey;  An overview of health in ministry;  Self-care vs. self-concern;  Health summarized - wholeness, happiness, and weightlessness;  An overview of excellence in ministry;  The first principle of excellence - the separation of self and role;  The overlap - self and role together;  The personal benefits of the first principle;  The second principle of excellence - always choose strength;  The third principle of excellence - straight from Jesus-'Judge not;'  Three applications - gossip, weddings, and routine pastoral calls;  Three more applications - conflict, staff communications, and friendship;  Two applications to current ministry concerns - social media and financial management;  Commitment, momentum, and beyond.

#820179   book

This book tells the story of American Methodist women's efforts fight for women's rights, beginning with the Women's Christian Temperance Union and ending with the #MeToo movement.  Each chapter documents particular Methodist women and provides the reader with a basic historic context of the time or situation at hand as it shows how Methodist women engaged and fought for women's equality or women's rights in American society and American Methodism.  Chapters:  John Wesley and women in ministry;  Methodist women and the eradication of social sin;  Social holiness;  Suffrage - Frances Willard, Anna Howard Shaw, Shaw and Willard;  Racial equality - Thelma Stevens, Theresa Hoover, Methodist history, The Woman's Division;  The Equal Rights Amendment - Churchwomen's Liberation, 1972 General Conference, Equal Rights Amendment;  Reproductive Rights - abortion in the 19th century, abortion in the 20th century, The Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, The United Methodist Church and abortion, abortion today in The United Methodist Church, abortion today in the United States;  Sexual harassment - Why?, the stained-glass ceiling, data on the stained-glass ceiling;  She continues to preach.  Includes discussion questions and bibliography.