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Reseña del editor

As three women attend an awards ceremony in their honor, they relive their complicated personal and religious journeys. While listening to the speakers, each struggles with a difficult choice she must make by the end of the evening that will forever change her life.

Mona Sullivan seeks peace and certitude when she becomes a nun, but must adjust to tumultuous changes in her Church. As she becomes an activist public figure, she must decide whether to stay in the Church or leave to become an Episcopal priest.

Sandra Miller embarks on a long and difficult journey to become a rabbi at a time when women weren’t accepted. Now she must choose between her childhood sweetheart and her successful career.

Reverend Elizabeth Adams builds a Presbyterian congregation with her husband, but he leaves her for a younger woman. She discovers she’s a lesbian and faces a difficult choice between her same-sex relationship and her career.

Biografía del autor

Marcia R. Rudin graduated magna cum laude from Boston University. She received a joint MA degree in religion from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. She studied for a PhD at the New School for Social Research and taught history of religion at William Paterson College. She was a resident in screenwriting at the MacDowell Colony of the Arts. Several of her plays have received productions.

Marcia is the coauthor of Why Me? Why Anyone? and Prison or Paradise? The New Religious Cults. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and other publications. A longtime expert on destructive cults, she has been quoted by many renowned publications and has appeared several times on national and regional television.

She and her husband, Rabbi James Rudin, live in Manhattan and Florida. They have two daughters and one granddaughter. For additional information, visit www.marciarudin.com