Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Preface: Spirals Within Spirals: The Helix as a Theological Model xiii
5. A Womans Faith xxi
6. Sometimes You Just Gotta Break the Rules xxvii
7. Introduction: On Ethnographic Responsibility
8. The Writer as Author/ized Storyteller 1
9. Making Connections 13
10. Making Sense of Primal Stew 19
11. Musings from a Hot Blackberry Patch 26
12. Chapter 1. Claiming the Pulpit
13. Hearing Women Speak 29
14. Bearing Fruit (I) 41
15. Bearing Fruit (II) 47
16. Chapter 2. Collaborative Praxis Against All Odds
17. My Journal Remembers 53
18. A Grateful Heart 72
19. Christs Healing Touch 76
20. Chapter 3. "Reading" Women′s Sermons
21. Reciprocal Ethnography at Work 83
22. An Owners Manual for the Bible 109
23. Scraps from the Table 118
24. Chapter 4. Her Stories in Bold Form
25. Narrative in Women′s Sermons 124
26. Letting Go and Letting Grow 140
27. The Good News According to Ziggy 147
28. Chapter 5. A Dialogic Paradigm
29. What Women Bring to Christian Religion 155
30. When Two or More Are Gathered 177
31. Putting Gods Blueprint into Action 185
32. The Gifts of God 191
33. What Should I Do? 198
34. Bibliography 207
35. Index 215