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"A Balm for the Soul. The Words of Her Mouth: Psalms for the Struggle listens to and wrestles with ancient poems through the lenses of modern women: Martha Spong, Mihee Kim-Kort, Beth Richardson, Alicia Crosby, Marilyn Pagán-Banks, Julia Seymour, Kentina Washington-Leapheart, Jennifer Garrison Brownell, Katie Mulligan, and Layton Williams. This collection of 150 psalms is a balm in this season of spiritual strife and political struggle. Each original psalm invites the reader into honest space in which lament is heard, love is affirmed, and the body is unashamed before God. As Martha Spong explains in the book's foreword, ""I wondered what women writers might say in conversation with the psalms in this season of child separation and climate change and #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter. I invited nine women whose faith and writing I value to join me in discovering what the psalms say to us and what psalms are inside us."""

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The Words of Her Mouth contains compelling and truth-telling words that embody the poetic ethos and pathos of the ancient writers. With a directness that cuts through the noise, these women psalmists offer us heck yes moments that resonant deeply with our experiences in this wondrous and horrifying world we inhabit. -- Marcia McFee, PhD Creator and Visionary of the Worship Design Studio The Words of Her Mouth is a solitary beauty, presenting a vast collection of poetic truths from women psalmists. The words are radiant and diversely perceptive, touching, evoking, and moving the soul and reviving the mind. Meditate and share these verses hat will strengthen your journey of faith. -- Grace Ji-Sun Kim Associate Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religio A new psalter for a new age and, like the canonical psalter, its poetry arcs forward into world in which the inspiration for its creation will pass but its power endures as praying words, healing words and, when necessary, fighting words. -- The Rev. Wil Gafney, PhD Professor of Hebrew Bible, Brite Divinity School This collection of Psalms are sighs that were once too deep for words finally expressed, articulated, and announced. Longings, questions and epiphanies are eloquent invitations for deep communion. This is a book many of us have been waiting for. -- Bishop Oliveto The United Methodist Church

"""The Words of Her Mouth"" contains compelling and truth-telling words that embody the poetic ethos and pathos of the ancient writers. With a€directness that cuts through the noise, these women psalmists offer us ""heck yes"" moments that resonant deeply with our experiences in this wondrous and horrifying world we inhabit. -- Marcia McFee, PhD ""Creator and Visionary of the Worship Design Studio"" ""The Words of Her Mouth"" is a solitary beauty, presenting a vast collection of poetic truths from women psalmists. The words are radiant and diversely perceptive, touching, evoking, and moving the soul and reviving the mind. Meditate and share these verses hat will strengthen your journey of faith. -- Grace Ji-Sun Kim ""Associate Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religio"" A new psalter for a new age and, like the canonical psalter, its poetry arcs forward into world in which the inspiration for its creation will pass but its power endures as praying words, healing words and, when necessary, fighting words. -- The Rev. Wil Gafney, PhD ""Professor of Hebrew Bible, Brite Divinity School"" This collection of Psalms are sighs that were once too deep for words finally expressed, articulated, and announced. Longings, questions and epiphanies are eloquent invitations for deep communion. This is a book many of us have been waiting for. -- Bishop Oliveto ""The United Methodist Church"""

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"Martha Spong is an author, pastor, and coach committed to sustaining clergywomen in their work and amplifying diverse voices in conversations about faith, particularly People of Color and LGBTQIA+ people. As Executive Director of RevGalBlogPals, she emphasized ecumenical collaboration and created space for reflections on the intersection of faith and public life in a weekly feature, ""The Pastoral is Political."" Under her leadership, RevGalBlogPals received the United Church of Christ's Antoinette Brown Catalyst Award for providing a provocative space that advances women in ministry. Martha lives in Pennsylvania with her wife and family."

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