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CONFESSIONS OF A POLE DANCING PRIEST IBD

REV LAURA CHAPMAN / WARREN FITZGERALD
ARMLEY PRESS
03 / 2024
9781916016583
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Sinopsis

Laura has a calling from God. But, like many other twentysomethings, she also loves booze, sex and funny cat videos. Will this make her a bad priest? The crusty white male custodians of the ministry think so. But Laura has different ideas.At theological college, despite hard partying and frequent hangovers, Laura is a good enough student to point out where the scripture is a misogynistic âÇÖcrock of shiteâÇÖ.Threatened with expulsion, Laura is silenced. For now. But she finds empowerment in pole fitness classes, and as a fully-fledged priest, older and wiser, she installs a pole in the vicarage, leaving visiting bishops agog.Laura, an outsider herself, knows that outsiders are who the church is there for - from the old man barred from his loverâÇÖs funeral to the young woman in need of a secret abortion. But even LauraâÇÖs powers of inclusivity are challenged when she has to eulogise at a paedophileâÇÖs funeral and is hit on by a randy undertaker.Confessions of a Pole Dancing Priest, one womanâÇÖs true-life odyssey of outrage through the patriarchal world of the Church, isáfull of whip-smart comebacks, stinging one-liners and scalpel-sharp observations. LauraâÇÖs story moves from episodes which are frank, crude, funny and rebellious to a traumatic conclusion of almost biblical proportions that speaks to the wisdom and humanity in all of us.