{"product_id":"9780802883544","title":"The Strain of Other Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet the Reverend Mother Ruth, a Black Protestant nun whose call to ministry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewould challenge and change the Episcopal Church\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Strain of Other Blood tells the true story of a trailblazing Black Protestant nun. Born\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ein Harlem in 1897, Ruth Elaine Younger sought to break away from her impoverished\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand turbulent family life and join an American Episcopal order. She was denied\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eadmission because of racial discrimination in the Episcopal Church, so she moved to\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToronto and became a nun in the Anglican Church of Canada. But she never gave up\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eher dream of living out her vocation in America, and her persistence eventually opened\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea path back to New York City, where she founded an Episcopal order for women and a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eprivate K–8 school in 1950 that is still flourishing today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMother Ruth was a fascinating figure with a complex relationship to racial identity: on the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eone hand, she advocated passionately for multicultural faith and learning communities,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewhile on the other hand, she sometimes passed as white when doing so enabled her to\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eachieve her goals more effectively. She was also a controversial leader who\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emaneuvered around the rules of the institutional church to achieve the goals to which\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eshe felt God was calling her. With compelling and candid storytelling, The Strain of Other\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlood introduces readers to an unexpected civil rights advocate who was ahead of her\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etime both in the church and in society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"EERDMANS TRADE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47825513742388,"sku":"9780802883544","price":51.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780802883544.jpg?v=1779315358","url":"https:\/\/woodslane.com.au\/products\/9780802883544","provider":"Woodslane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}