{"id":981,"date":"2018-07-16T10:38:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2018-07-16T10:38:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:38:25","slug":"omg-my-book-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/omg-my-book-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG! My Book Has Arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In what may be the longest pregnancy in recorded history, my memoir, A Gracious Heresy: the Queer Calling of an Unlikely Prophet\u00a0<\/em> has arrived. Here is the description I wrote for the back of the book and it about sums it up:<\/p>\n

“Take one wildly na\u00efve, deeply flawed, completely unconventional woman and stir in God. Add to the mix that she is a lesbian, feminist, army brat, and single mom and what you get is an earnestly radical Christian on a mission. Her response to an insistent call to prophetic ministry is acutely human and terminally messy. Prone to veer off course, she wrestles angels who repeatedly return her to her trajectory. No matter, the prophetic ministry to which she is called ends up taking place in hundreds of small daily acts rather than the great act to which she had hoped for.”<\/p>\n

I was notified that my author’s copies would be sent out late last week. So I just went online to see if maybe, somehow, who knows, it was on the web site. It is!
\nhttps:\/\/wipfandstock.com\/a-gracious-heresy.html<\/a><\/p>\n

It will also be on Amazon and in bookstores sometime in the next three or four weeks. Audible to follow.<\/p>\n

Can I say I am overwhelmed? But more surprising, I am terrified. \u00a0It seemed like a good idea at the time. I have lots of good ideas “at the time”. This is one I can’t take back or do over.<\/p>\n

So here it is, dear readers. I have labored long, revised and re-revised, agonized, and sweat tears. I now offer it to you in all it’s messy, imperfect glory. I self disclose (you’ll need to tell me if it is ‘over’ or ‘under’) and all of a sudden I feel very vulnerable. You may wonder why I didn’t think about this before. You may also come to discover that it \u00a0is not how I work.<\/p>\n

‘Jump first’ seems to be my motto.Look around second. So now I’m looking around to see what I’ve gotten myself into. I am not oriented enough to answer that question yet, but this I will say: Some part of me thinks I have done my best and some part thinks it will never be good enough. That said, my story is an invitation to think about call, spiritual experience, doctrine, heresy, sexuality, \u00a0faithfulness, and challenging the powerful. \u00a0It’s also a damn good story about an interesting life.<\/p>\n

I hope you will do me the honor of reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In what may be the longest pregnancy in recorded history, my memoir, A Gracious Heresy: the Queer Calling of an Unlikely Prophet\u00a0 has arrived. Here is the description I wrote for the back of the book and it about sums it up: “Take one wildly na\u00efve, deeply flawed, completely unconventional woman and stir in God. … Continue reading OMG! My Book Has Arrived!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,17,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}