The Shepherd's Image

When Wall Street takeover star Adelaide Wasserstein wanted something more in her life than just numbers, she took her father’s sage advice and went looking for a hobby. What she found was an art teacher who kindled in her an interest in the mystery of religious experience in a way that her classical upbringing in languages, in theology and in economics had never done. Entranced, she followed the artist through the doors of the Episcopal Church and into the spiritual life she hadn’t known she needed.
Adelaide’s journey from corporate businesswoman to progressive bishop takes her from the small apartment where her parents dole out comfort and wisdom in equal measure, to the hallowed streets of Rome, and finally to a rust belt church with stops along the way to learn patience, silence, trust, and love. With the knowledge to restructure organizations and the longing to find out what feeds her soul, Adelaide is a force the church never counted on but quickly finds it cannot do without.