Lifting Women's Voices

Prayers to Change the World

Margaret Rose, Jeanne Person, Abagail Nelson, Jenny Te Paa

Church Publishing

Apr/2010, 416 Pages, Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5

ISBN: 9780898690330

This stunning collection of prayers from women throughout the Anglican Communion is organized according to themes of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.

The prayers make direct connections between women’s lives and global concerns of women everywhere, showing the interrelatedness, for example, between a woman’s prayer for her infant in America and the plight of child laborers in developing countries. The prayer selections are representative of women from of all parts of the Anglican world. Members of the editorial board include Jane Williams, Phoebe Griswold, and women from Asia, South America, and the Middle East.

Margaret Rose is director of the mission leadership center of the Episcopal Church Center, New York.

Jeanne Person, associate rector of Holy Trinity Church, New York, is author of Where You Go, I Shall: Gleanings from the Stories of Biblical Widows (Cowley, 2005).


Abagail Nelson is vice president for programs of Episcopal Relief and Development.
Jenny Te Paa is dean of St. John's Theological College in Auckland, New Zealand.

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