SHETLAND
MIST
A Shetland Family in the Methodist Movement
A story of hardship, faith, and resilience
“Shetland Mist: A Shetland Family in the Methodist Movement grounds the reader in the life of a family shortly after the time of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, in a village on the Shetland islands. The novel, based on the author’s family history, reveals the inner, spiritual prayer life of Ann Leslie who slogs through the sloughs as well as highlands of faith, facing the family’s struggles and tragedies of daily living. Ann’s theological reflections about what she believes, especially about suffering, from her Methodist teaching, worship and song, are thought-provoking and inspiring. I found the story to be haunting for days to come, wanting others to have read it so I could talk about it with them!”
—Sally Dyck, Bishop in The United Methodist Church
“It is the dream of many Americans to be able to trace their ancestry directly to the places from which our ancestors came. I took that goal for my Campbell ancestors in the summer of 1977. I’m still working on it. But Heather Leslie Hammer has done it! There ought to be an Academy Award for that! She tells the story of her forebears as a gifted storyteller, carefully laying out a plot focusing on personalities and sensitive to the nuances of the place ‘over there’ in ‘the auld country.’ This is a story of an American family, well worth the telling!”
—Ted A. Campbell, Albert C. Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, Perkins School of Theology SMU
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