Books by Merikay McLeod
My new book…
The Day After His Crucifixion, is written for readers who want to know more about the first century Palestinian Jew known as Jesus. Although his parents actually named him Yeshua, by the 13th century that name had been translated by several different languages until it became “Jesus” in the King James Version of the Bible.
During Yeshua’s time and place, women‘s lives were greatly restricted. Their value was measured in the number of sons they birthed and the kind of household they ran. There were all sorts of cultural and religious taboos concerning the interaction between men and women. Men were specifically prohibited from speaking to women in public.
Yet, Yeshua the Nazarene, something like a rock star with huge crowds following wherever he went, totally ignored those taboos. He freely interacted with women, taught them, and welcomed them as his followers. In fact, a woman was the first to whom he revealed that he was the Messiah. And a woman was the first human he interacted with after his resurrection. She is the person he appointed to announce his resurrection.
Read The Day After His Crucifixion for powerful eyewitness reports on Yeshua’s words and deeds.
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“Gives a voice to the women encountering Jesus This is a great novella. … It highlights how Jesus treated women, respecting them, never ignoring them and never turning them away.”
★★★★★ reader review by Joan
“Merikay McLeod creates a powerful female-centric focus that is as avid and faithful as Yeshua’s disciples.”
★★★★★ D. Donovan, Senior Editor
Midwest Book Review
“An engaging read! Brava! This is a page-turner with a timeless, illuminating message. From the outset, the reader is drawn into the story by way of vivid descriptions, raw emotions, and the heart-felt actions of courageous women. The point of view is reminiscent of women’s experiences within the context of patriarchal power structures. I highly recommend this novella.”
★★★★★ reader review by Dr. DArlene
“What an engaging and inspiring book! I was so drawn into it that I read it in 2 days. The women’s stories spoke to my heart and I felt they were talking to me. Merikay McLeod so skillfully wove the Biblical stories through her narrative that they seemed natural and new. I strongly recommend this book.”
★★★★★ reader review by D. Dreher
Betrayal by Merikay McLeod
This dramatic first person account of seeking equal pay within a religious publishing house gives readers an up-close view of the explosion when youthful courage and entrenched corporate sex discrimination collide.
As a young assistant editor at Pacific Press Publishing Association (owned by the Seventh-day Adventist church), Merikay McLeod asked for wages comparable to those paid a man doing the same work.
Her husband was out of work and wanted to return to college, their car was in n bad repair, and they were reduced to returning groceries for change to do their laundry.
The Pacific Press manager not only said, “No.” He said, “Never!”
And the consequences of that “Never!” are the gripping struggle for justice recounted in Betrayal.
First published in 1985 and the recipient of the 1986 Angel Award of Excellence, this 40th anniversary edition includes three new chapters that add to the depth of this inspiring story. A church historian unearths the history of paying women less than men. Merikay’s colleague in the struggle, Lorna Tobler, shares her personal efforts to encourage corporate change and the brutal rebuffs she received, and the EEOC attorney who guided the legal maneuvering explains the legal decisions as the case made its way through the court system.
These new chapters add context and depth to the power of Betrayal. Buy your copy today and get ready for the emotional ride of a lifetime.
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“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 is one of the heroines.”
★★★★★ reader review by Phyllis Chesler, PhD, author of Women & Madness
“Like many true-life tales (Betrayal) seems stranger and more moving than fiction …. This is an inspiring book, recommended for general and womens studies collections.”
★★★★★ Library Journal’s comment on the original Betrayal
“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.”
★★★★★ reader review by Lawrence T. Geraty, PhD, President Emeritus, La Sierra University
“…Truly absorbing. Like many real-life dramas, the story of Betrayal supplies us with a complete cast of real-life heroes and villains, more fascinating than any that fiction could provide.”
★★★★★ Peninsula Times Tribune’s comment on the original Betrayal
Now! By Merikay McLeod
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“A National Sunday Law? It seemed like a dream. Even though I had read about it and knew in my heart that it was coming, I just couldn’t believe that it was here . . . now.”
Now! written by a teenage girl during the tumultuous 60s, is a heart-stopping story of the end-time based on the description in The Great Controversy. Even though we cannot know exactly how the time of trouble will play out, this story will turn your heart toward the One who will be with you to the end.
Those Were the Days By Merikay McLeod
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Merikay McLeod’s writing career began to crystalize during her junior year of academy—the year at Grand Ledge Academy upon which she bases this book. She went on to work at Pacific Press® Publishing Association as an assistant book editor; as an editor at Santa Clara University; as a reporter, columnist, and feature writer for The Union Democrat newspapers and for the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Press Democrat newspaper. She holds a BA in professional writing from San Jose State University, an MA in Sociology and Women’s Studies, and an MA in spirituality from Santa Clara University.
Merikay has won numerous awards including Woman of the year (2006) from the Association of Adventist Women, and first place in the 2006 National Federation of Press Women competition for news writing in a daily newspaper.
Her freelance writing has been published in many Seventh-day Adventist periodicals as well as Good Housekeeping, the Seattle Times Sunday Supplement, Mother Earth News, Campus Life, and Sunday Digest, as well as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Digest, Unity Magazine, Family Digest, MS, Student Lawyer, Executive Female Digest, Scholastic New Trails and other national and regional publications.
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