Madness to Ministry: A Woman's Journey from Psych Unit to Pulpit
Nancy Bauer-King
(Author)
Description
After an intense religious seminar, Nancy Bauer-King became convinced she needed to kill herself to prove her love for God.
She was hospitalized and diagnosed psychotic. Her psychiatrist did not permit her to talk about God, Her church avoided discussing mental illness, and she started writing as therapy to find meaning in the void she experienced between tenets of religion and psychology. Madness to Ministry is her story of a breakdown followed by a breakthrough that helped restore her emotional balance and rediscover her sense of humor. Bauer-King offers her story as one of hope, especially for readers who experience mental distress related to Christian doctrine.
Product Details
Price
$18.00
Publisher
Ten16 Press
Publish Date
June 13, 2017
Pages
298
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.67 inches | 0.97 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781943331628
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About the Author
Nancy Bauer-King is an eighty-year-old retired United Methodist clergywoman who is exploring her troubled relationship with religious imagery and ideology with humor and, hopefully, honesty. The title Little Feet Be Careful comes from a short song she sang in Sunday School at five years old and appears seven times in the book, each time with a different reflection. Though some of her stepping through these past two years of questioning has not been careful, with help from family and friends, she has survived the pandemic and her husband's death from dementia. Nancy's fiction and poetry can be found in several anthologies and magazines, such as Creative Wisconsin Anthology 2018, The Christian Century 2019, and Wisconsin Poet's Calendar 2020. She is also the author of Madness to Ministry (a memoir) and The Word From the Wise Old Woman (a feminine book of sermons).