Overview

Whiteout: My Racism--Brief Anecdotal Snapshots is a philosophical memoir that integrates complex religio-spiritual themes in a world beset with divisiveness and a deep need for cohesive understanding of the divine/human connection in the service of peace, liberty, and justice for all.

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""Delving into her own spiritual and psychological encounters with difference, Lyn Brakeman employs metaphor, poetry, and wit. She presents the reader with a richly colorful quilt of vignettes that show a spiritual life sprinkled with sass, grit, and challenge, a life matured by wisdom and humor, as she continues to theologically reflect on unfolding aspects of the Divine through everyday experience."" --Jeffrey Mills, Trainor, Education for Ministry ""Whiteout is a bravely candid and reflective book, in which the author uses stories from her life (she calls them 'scenes') as points for exploring racism, along with other '-isms.' She is a gifted storyteller, taking the reader into significant events and relationships on her path to growing self-awareness. With humor and humility, she weaves her faith and ministry into her reflections."" --Chilton R. Knudsen, Eighth Bishop of Maine, Retired ""There are not many times we have an opportunity to read a life story that reflects some of the trials you have experienced. This is a story that recognizes what life and its experiences are. We may look for the hero to save and comfort us, but in real life there are only self-heroes. This story captures life--its heartaches, misfortunes, and the unexpected--yet by some unjustifiable grace, we find and realize our purpose. This story is provoking and a challenge yet mindful and respectful to those brave enough to read it."" --Julian K. Fredie Jr., Deacon, Parish of All Saints Ashmont ""Lyn Brakeman invites the reader into a frank and fearless conversation in which an array of anecdotes from her own life speak to the times she has lived in, and that we all live in now. A memoir in many acts, this engaging and at times confronting book also amounts to a narrative manifesto against racism and all forms of oppression."" --Andrew McGowan, Dean of Berkeley Divinity School, Yale University

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Lyn Brakeman is a retired Episcopal priest and alumna of Smith College and Yale Divinity School. Her mother called her a ""miracle"" from God. Under pressure to be miraculous and free from excessive maternal praise, Brakeman sought refuge in her favorite book, The Little Book About God, by Lauren Ford. She talked to God, who always listened and never talked back. Brakeman took this God into her heart as accompanist and instructor in her search for wisdom from life experience--motherhood, marriages, divorces, church politics, silent retreats, psychotherapy and spiritual direction, travel, and writing. She is also the author of two books of midrash and a memoir.

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