The Heart of a Pastor: A Life of Edmond Lee Browning

When a genial, red-headed Texan, recently ordained an Episcopal priest, set off in 1959 with his wife and three young children to do missionary work in post-World War II Okinawa, he didnt know it was the beginning of a journey that would take him to assignments around the world and lead to his election as the twenty-fourth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. Edmond Lee Browning, known for his pastoral heart and his declaration of No outcasts, steered the church through challenging issuesracial, gender, and sexual equality, ordination of women to the episcopate, nuclear arms proliferation, warand bitter controversy as traditional understandings of faith, human sexuality, and Americas place among the nations came under siege. An unflinching advocate for the powerless, he advised not only his fellow Episcopalians, but U.S. presidents and world leaders in a ministry that spanned the continents and earned him international love and respect. Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrooks authorized biography, The Heart of a Pastor: A Life of Edmond Lee Browning tells this remarkable mans story through the Browning familys own words, excerpts from historical documents, and the lively anecdotes and intimate recollections of those who knew him best.