BISHOP PHILIP RUIZ BELZUNCE, Ph.D., DD, ND, SMFT, GSC (US), Licensed Psychologist, Supervisor
REV. DR JUNE BOYCE-TILLMAN MBE PhD, MA, LRAM, FRSA, FHEA, FISM, Professor Emerita of Applied Music
REV. DR JUNE BOYCE-TILLMAN MBE PhD, MA, LRAM, FRSA, FHEA, FISM, Professor Emerita of Applied Music
Rev. Sterringer’s book, Forbidden Grace, is wonderfully fashioned with an open heart, an enlightened theological mind that is well grounded in the historical facts for an enchanting, compassionate and full of empathy journey into two women’s lives. Rev Sterringer transports, transcends and seamlessly interweaves the inspiring life of St. Hildegard of Bingen with her life and ministry today as an ordained woman priest. She guides us clearly in a masterful way into the inner and outer landscape of the countless challenges, pains, and woundings they each encountered. They both responded to their challenges in a respectful and dialogical process, and hopefully in which healing and evolution can continue to unfold inclusively in the world. By following God's personal calling, she is able to express her journey in translating the understanding and the embodiment of these understandings. This book is a testament to two courageous women, separated by nine hundred years, who have shown incredible tenacity, boldness, conviction, and commitment to Christ's personal call. Forbidden Grace is a wondrous journey of two souls filled with wisdom that is particularly relevant to the predicaments of our modern life. This book supports each of us and the church to reclaim and renew our feminine energy. It is a call to all God's children for inclusivity, a call to Love one another, and a call to wholeness versus discrimination. Every reader will benefit from what she shares and explores in Forbidden Grace. I highly recommend taking the journey as readers for the "Forbidden Grace" that you may find.