Do You Hear What I Hear? Religious Calling, the Priesthood, and My Father

by Minna Zallman Proctor

A woman who grew up in a family without ties to organized religion describes how her university professor father unsuccessfully attempted to become an Episcopalian priest in his sixties, in a spiritual analysis of the concept of a religious calling as based on the author's numerous conversations with her father as well as interviews with members of the clergy and religious scholars. 15,000 first printing.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published February 3, 2005

About the author

Minna Zallman Proctor is a writer, translator, educator and editor of The Literary Review. New books include the memoir, Landslide: True Stories, a translation of Fleur Jaeggy's These Possible Lives, a translation of Natalia Ginzburg's Happiness, As Such and an autobiography collaboration with soprano Bethany Beardslee, I Sang the Unsingable: My Life in Twentieth Century Music. She teaches creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.