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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Elizabeth A. Dreyer Wins Catholic Press Association Award


Elizabeth Dreyer gives a retreat day at Wisdom House in
February, 2009, on the topic of "Spirituality for Christian Women.

At last week's Catholic Press Association 2009 convention, Elizabeth A. Dreyer, Ph.D., editor of the "Called to Holiness" series, won 1st place in the Gender Issues category for her book, "Making Sense of God." Dr. Dreyer is a frequent program presenter at Wisdom House.

The judges wrote about Dr. Dreyer's book: "This book reaches out to all women and helps them see themselves as grassroots theologians, whose specific experiences of joy and struggle, ecstasy and despair, virtue and vice, embodiment and sexuality are vital to a full Christian understanding of what it is to be human."

 Two other authors of books in the series were honored:  in Gender Issues,"Living a Spirituality of Action" by Joan Mueller took 3rd place and in the Family Life category, "Grieving With Grace," by Dolores Leckey, took 3rd place.

The series is published by St. Anthony Messenger Press. For more information
visit www.calledtoholiness.org.