"Washington describes these historic events with the intimacy of a co-participant and confesses his own inner struggles with humility and candor. This work is history as well as inspirational reading." --Library Journal "[E]asy, enjoyable, and provocative...Washington offers insight into the experiences of an African American pastor whose ministry emanated from within the structures of a white church." --Sojourners "Paul Washington is a man of deep compassion and commitment to humanity based upon a profound understanding of Christian faith." --William H. Gray, III, President and CEO, United Negro College Fund, and former congressman from Pennsylvania "Like his biblical namesake, Father Paul has sounded the trumpet to 'break every yoke' for all people, whatever their race, nation, gender or sexual orientation. In a world paralyzed by greed, his humble life and abundant giving summon us to follow and do likewise. To Father Paul Washington, the world will always be his pasture. As one of his sheep, I will forever be grateful for his gift of love that summoned me to a renewal of my life." --Chuck Stone, syndicated columnist and Walter Spearman Professor of Journalism at the University of North Carolina "The fact that the Church of the Advocate was the site of the historic service for the ordination of women to the priesthood was but a natural outgrowth of Paul's and the community's progress in understanding this vital issue. Paul stands as a witness to God's grace in action and to the power of faith working through community to bring about justice, peace, and reconciliation." --Barbara C. Harris, Suffragan Bishop, Diocese of Massachusetts "Father Paul Washington's life as God's messenger to disenchanted, disenfranchised, disconnected, despised, distrusted and disheartened residents of Philadelphia's forsaken neighborhoods is persuasive evidence of the human spirit's potential for virtue. His autobiography confirms my description of him as 'the patron saint of the inner city and the eloquent conscience of the dissident and distraught groups which took refuge in his church.'" --Charles W. Bowser, author of Let the Bunker Burn: MOVE and the Final Battle
