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    Tears of Christepona: Mystical Musings on Grief, Evil, and Godding
    Tears of Christepona: Mystical Musings on Grief, Evil, and Godding
    Tears of Christepona: Mystical Musings on Grief, Evil, and Godding
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    Tears of Christepona: Mystical Musings on Grief, Evil, and Godding

    By Carter Heyward

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    Early one morning in November 2019, Carter Heyward awoke to a voice she figured was hers, but then again, maybe it wasn't exactly her own. Grief-stricken, because her horse Feather had just been diagnosed with a rare equine cancer; in pain with a freshly broken arm of her own; and horrified by the morally bankrupt state of the nation under Donald Trump, Carter begins a conversation with "someone." Herself? Her higher power? Friends who have passed on? The persistent voice names herself (or themselves) "Christepona." Thus begins Carter Heyward's mystical presentation of her ever-deepening passion for justice-love at every level of our life together, from the very personal to the larger social and political contexts. Moving into her grief, Carter wrestles with the problem of evil. She dives into her own anger and hatred, and that of others, and surfaces in enthusiastic bursts of gratitude, joy, and hope.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateOct 14, 2021
    ISBN9781666713688
    Tears of Christepona: Mystical Musings on Grief, Evil, and Godding
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    Carter Heyward

    Carter Heyward graduated from Union Theological Seminary in New York City (MA 1971, MDiv 1973, PhD 1980), Danforth Scholar, 1978-80. She was among the first group of women ordained in Philadelphia in 1974. Heyward taught at Episcopal Divinity School, 1975-2005, and has been honored with distinguished Alumae Awards from Randolph Macon Woman's College and Union Theological Seminary. She lives in Cedar Mountain, North Carolina.

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