Pastor Wears a Skirt: Stories of Gender and Ministry

Dangerous Woman? Ordained by God? Gender matters!What do pastors really do beyond the pulpit?

What's it like to be a woman pastor?It's complicated.

People leave congregations when the pastor wears a skirt.

Other congregations become advocates for women clergy. Rev. Dorothy Nickel Friesen, an ordained Mennonite pastor, digs deep into the soul of a pastor with humor, pathos, and passion.

Her memoir, a collection of short stories based on true events, visits the agony of bedside death, lost dreams, and angry parishioners who walk away from her leadership.

She also shares the laugh-out-loud stories of weddings (a missing groom), rituals of deep meaning (with water from the Jordan River), and tension-filled advocacy for peace (on a military base). With honesty and warmth, Rev. Dorothy beckons women, especially, to love God's people as a leader, preacher, and friend.

She hopes this book will help you see beyond the "e;Bible wars"e; and deepen your faith that God generously gifts women for spiritual leadership.