Katherine Willis Pershey
Autor/a de Very Married: Field Notes on Love and Fidelity
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Katherine Willis Pershey is the associate minister of the First Congregational Church in Western Springs, Illinois. She is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She can be found online at www.katherinewiuispershey.com.
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I'm very much enjoying this book right now. When the book was given to me, I thought it was a marriage advice book, which is sort of what I was looking for. My marriage is good, nearly 16 years strong, and has weathered some rough waters, but as we enter new phases in parenting, I thought it would be good to sort of do a check-in. What ways could we connect with each other better? How could we better meet each other's needs? How can we encourage growth?
Anyway, this book is more of a memoir than a book of advice or DIY counseling. Which turns out, is exactly what I wanted. The author writes about the rough first years of her marriage, the birth of her children, her job as a pastor and writer and the ways she and her husband have learned to navigate and connect to each other through these stages. Pershey writes with wit and wisdom and with the acknowledgment that she's still figuring things out. I am finding the book to be encouraging and reassuring.
The only thing that has really bothered me so far is that there is a very short reference to lament, which Pershey defines parenthetically as "the spiritual art of complaining." OUCH. In recent years there has been a lot of writing (some by my husband) about how Christians need to reclaim the spiritual art of lamentation, which is not complaining at all, but rather "a passionate expression of grief of sorrow." It's a movement that I think Pershey would embrace. Yes, I've heard people use the word lament to mean complain, and I understand Pershey is being funny, but in a spiritual sense (which is the sense Pershey was referring to), lament is so much greater and deeper and is, in fact, not complaining at all. I'm sort of stalled out on reading the book because I found that one little offhand phrase so off-putting. (Admittedly, non-fiction of any kind is not really my genre, so it doesn't take much to make me stall.)… (més)