Healing and Learning with Emmy Kegler's "One Coin Found"
Like all the best spiritual memoirs, Rev. Emmy Kegler’s debut book One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins is a marvelous chain of moving personal stories and what they have taught her about God. There is much to comment on, but as a teacher - someone deeply concerned about how study can complement Christian devotion as to make us more powerful believers and attentive leaders - I found this book particularly wonderful because there are so many ‘class-settings’ where it could potentially be put to use. For example: If you are leading a seminar for anyone concerned about LGBTQAI+ youth – or a retreat for queer youth themselves: This book should be given to every registered attendee. Pastor Emmy shares touching and relatable anecdotes, like how she got caught “writing anonymous love notes... four-line rhyming poems to every girl in class... slipping them into their desks when we left for gym” (30). Anecdotes like this are excellent sparks for meaningfu...