Vashti's Banquet: Voices from Her Feast - Essays to Mark the 25th Anniversary of the Ordination of the 1st Woman Diocesan Bishop in the Anglican Communion: The Rt Rev'd Penelope Ann Bansall Jamieson

Council for Anglican Women's Studies, Auckland, 2015. Creasing to bottom corner.

I still long for a church that can look out and engage with confidence in the society in which we are situated.
- Penny Jamieson at her final Eucharist as Bishop

I am aware now that it was in the presence of the first woman diocesan bishop in the Anglican Communion, sitting there sipping tea as ordinary as the rest of us, that we could be safely fragile, quiet, tentative, curious - as we looked at her and considered ourselves.
- Mary Gray-Reeves

It was leadership which is about generosity - about sharing life - God's life of tenderness and compassion.
- Sue Halapua

...what is the spirituality of the office of Bishop? I believe it is the spirituality of knowing you are the recipient of a gift that keeps giving even when you would rather stop receiving.
- Victoria Matthews

Leaders are those who are fearless in naming and shaming all those things which act against the interests and indeed the humanity of God's precious Pacific women.
- Jenny Te Paa Daniel

Our Christian vocation is to seek abundant life for all - and as we become more aware of our interconnectedness, the all expands.
- Katharine Jefferts Schori

...given the hunger that is so prevalent for powerful stories which address the central, deepest questions of life, what are we doing with the Gospel with which we have been entrusted?
- Anne Van Gend

(from back cover)