One Coin Found, Emmy Kegler
One Coin Found, Emmy Kegler
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One Coin Found
How God's Love Stretches to the Margins

Author: Emmy Kegler

Narrator: Lisa Larsen

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/14/2021


Synopsis

The stories of Scripture are for everyone. No exceptions.

Emmy Kegler has a complicated relationship with the Bible. As a queer woman who grew up in both conservative Evangelical and progressive Protestant churches, she knows too well how Scripture can be used to wound and exclude. And yet, the stories of Scripture continue to captivate and inspire her—both as a person of faith and as a pastor to a congregation. So she set out to fall in love with the Bible, wrestling with the stories inside, where she met a God who continues to seek us out—appearing again and again as a voice, a presence, and a promise.

Whenever we are pushed to the edges, our voices silenced, or our stories dismissed, God goes out after us—seeking us until we are found again. And God is seeking out those whose voices we too quickly silence and dismiss, too. Because God's story is a story of welcome and acceptance for everyone—no exceptions.

Kegler shows us that even when we feel like lost and dusty coins—rusted from others' indifference, misspent and misused—God picks up a broom and sweeps every corner of creation to find us.

About Emmy Kegler

Emmy Kegler is a pastor, speaker, and author of One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins. As both pastor and patient, Kegler has an intimate relationship with mental illness and its complex connections to faith. She works to normalize the experiences of depression, anxiety, and a host of other diagnoses and symptoms, treating them not as proof of exclusion from God's grace but rather a common and expansive experience of the human condition in which God remains present and compassionate. She lives in Saint Paul with her wife Michelle and their two dogs and cat.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah

A bit about me: I am a pastor in a liberal progressive mainline denomination. I read a lot of theology and a lot of memoirs. When the two collide, as they do in "One Coin Found," I often find moments of connection, but rarely am I overwhelmed and shouting "AMEN!" like I was while reading Kegler's sto......more

Goodreads review by Ellie

Put the Bible in the hands of a hyper-intelligent woman, a lover of stories, a vivacious reader and a queer human who lives with depression, anxiety and perfectionism. Then listen. Listen closely to her and to what sees, what she lives, and what she has to say. One Coin Found is a priceless gem. It......more

Goodreads review by Layton

I knew Emmy’s book would be good because I’ve known for years that she was a gifted theologian, writer, exegete, and storyteller. What I didn't know was how good her book would be *for me*. Shortly after starting it I told her, “I may have to read this slowly, in pieces. Because if I read it all at......more