Search was recommended to me by a ministry colleague. Although she did not know that I had served on a pastor search committee a couple of years ago, I welcomed the recommendation and found the topic intriguing. Most ministers do not have the opportunity to be part of a pastor search committee and those who do may have a difficult time processing their experience. Author Michelle Huneven has written this novel about a congregational search committee told as a memoir with recipes. I shared with a group that I found it both amusing and terrifying! In the novel, Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer who is also a longtime, but increasingly dissatisfied, member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California. Coming off a successful book launch, she is asked to join the search committee for a new minister. Seeking her next book idea, she agrees, and resolves to secretly pen a memoir, with recipes,...
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