Gestation 
Driving to an appointment this afternoon, I wondered: how long is the longest gestation in the animal world? My memory said elephants. Roughly two years. My memory was on it.
So my book has taken longer than an elephant to gestate?! Well, how appropriate! My book points out a very large elephant in the living room of Baptist life: the ways gender shapes Baptist identity. So it’s time to deliver that story . . .
