Recommended Reading for September

 

Betrayal: The historic and personally challenging sex discrimination case that pitted the Adventist Church against its own women.

By Merikay McLeod

As a young assistant editor at Pacific Press Publishing Association, owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Merikay McLeod asked manager in 1972 for wages comparable to those paid to a man doing the same work. Her husband was out of work and wanted to go to school; their car was in bad repair; and they were reduced to returning groceries for change to do the laundry. But the manager not only said, “No”; he said, “Never!” And the consequences of that “Never!” are the struggle for justice recounted in Betrayal. 

For this fortieth anniversary edition, that story last published in 1985 as BETRAYAL: The Shattering Sex Discrimination Case of Silver vs Pacific Press Publishing Assoclation (Mars Hill Publications) is revised, updated, and contextualized by a colleague, an attorney, and a historian.

*What an important book for chronicling a crucial milestone in the Adventist Church’s treatment of women! To forget is to risk further discrimination. To be reminded is to inspire commitment to the eternal values of inclusion.”—Lawrence T. Geraty PhD, President Emeritus, La Sierra University

“Countless women employees are, or should be, grateful to Merikay for the size of their paychecks. Her courage and persistence have won benefits not only for her but for innumerable others,  as she wishes.”—Leona G. Running, PhD, professor emeritus, Andrews University 

“Merikay’s Betrayal Is very moving, very honest, very haunting, and well written. I could not put it down. The book shows us what the pursuit of sweet justice feels like, day after day; and tells us what the price of survival is for women. Merikay isone of the heroines.”—Phyllis Chesler, PhD, author of Women & Madness

Available now at: https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/AssociationforAdventistForums/merikaybook-1.html