{"product_id":"9781944769482","title":"The Beacons of Larkin Street: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“I’m fed up with the old boys club!” Dot pounded a fist on the table. “We need a woman minister this time!”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere’s a lot to love about the women of Saint Lydia’s in San Francisco. Head Beacon Beka and her sidekick Dot turned out to be very good at getting rid of a predatory male pastor. Female church leaders were rare in 1976, but they found an ordained woman to shepherd their flock. The five Beacons, their prickly minister and a young Mexican prostitute all took risks, made mistakes and followed their hearts to set a wild new course for their historic interracial, interdenominational congregation in “The City.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Judith Favor’s novel lives next door to Armistead Maupin’s San Francisco of the Seventies. In The Beacons we glimpse a radical Christianity—radical because women took over leadership of an interracial church. Favor gives an insider’s look at what happened in a place few of us have imagined.” —John Brantingham, author of Let Us All Now Pray to Our Own Strange Gods\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Judith Favor offers us a delicious, saucy slice of mid-70s San Francisco. The Beacons provides generous servings of the beautiful city plus a kaleidoscope of characters, lifestyles and spiritual practices. Deeply textured and finely tuned, this novel crackles with lively energy.” —Mary Atwood, Episcopal priest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apocryphile Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49833642197232,"sku":"9781944769482","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781944769482","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}