Confessions of a Pole Dancing Priest

<p class=ql-align-justify>Laura has a calling from God. But like many other twentysomethings she also loves booze sex and funny cat videos. Will this make her a bad priest? The crusty white male custodians of the ministry think so. But Laura has different ideas.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>At theological college despite hard partying and frequent hangovers Laura is a good enough student to point out where the scripture is a misogynistic 'crock of shite'.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Threatened with expulsion Laura is silenced. For now. But she finds empowerment in pole fitness classes and as a fully-fledged priest older and wiser she installs a pole in the vicarage leaving visiting bishops agog.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Laura an outsider herself knows that outsiders are who the church is there for - from the old man barred from his lover's funeral to the young woman in need of a secret abortion. But even Laura's powers of inclusivity are challenged when she has to eulogise at a paedophile's funeral and is hit on by a randy undertaker.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(29 35 40 1)>Confessions of a Pole Dancing Priest</em><span style=color: rgba(29 35 40 1)> one woman's true-life odyssey of outrage through the patriarchal world of the Church is </span>full of whip-smart comebacks stinging one-liners and scalpel-sharp observations. Laura's story moves from episodes which are frank crude funny and rebellious to a traumatic conclusion of almost biblical proportions that speaks to the wisdom and humanity in all of us.</p><p><br></p>