Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx
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ISBN: 0807072567 / Publisher: Beacon Press, October 2003
Traces the twenty-year ministry of Heidi Neumark, a white woman from a suburban, Ivy-League background who chose to work in a Hispanic and African-American Lutheran church within a poverty-stricken and violence-impacted neighborhood, sharing stories about her spiritual and family endeavors.
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This book is a song of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving for the people whose courageous witness has transfigured this community-and this pastor. Thanksgiving for the gift of these stories that cry out to be told and retold because in the midst of death they rise to fill the air with life.Breathing Space is the story of a young woman, Heidi Neumark, and the Hispanic and African-American Lutheran church-aptly named Transfiguration-that took a chance calling on a pastor from a starkly different background. Despite living and working in a milieu of overwhelming poverty and violence, Neumark and the congregation encounter even more powerful forces of hope and renewal.This is the story of a church and a community creating space for new life and breath in a place where children suffer the highest asthma rates in the nation. It's also the story of a young woman-working, raising her children, and struggling for spiritual breathing space. Through poignant, intimate stories, Neumark charts her journey alongside her parishioners as pastor, church, and community grow in wisdom and together experience transformation.
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