When Pastor Peggy Filossaint was installed into ministry over Zoom in June 2020, no one warned her about the wind.

They also forgot to mention the stuck zipper, and the heels that would sink into cemetery mud. Nobody told her she would dunk a six-foot teenager in a baptismal pool while standing in five-foot-one water shoes. And nothing in seminary prepared her for the afternoon she would walk into a house of fresh death, hold steady for the family for hours, drive home, and watch her own body break out in stress hives.

Seminary did not teach her any of this.

In They Didn't Teach This in Seminary, Pastor Peggy delivers a comic, honest, and deeply pastoral account of her first six years as a woman pastor in a profession that was not built for her. Across fourteen chapters, she navigates pulpits designed for taller bodies, congregations that call her Sister instead of Pastor, baby dedications that require kneeling in a pencil skirt, and the quieter realities of grief, calling, and what it actually means to need help.

Funny, frank, and theologically grounded, this is the book every woman in ministry wishes someone had handed her on the day she said yes.

For the women coming up behind her - and for everyone who loves them - Pastor Peggy offers the curriculum seminary never provided. Real lessons. Awkward moments. And grace along the way.

If you have ever worn the wrong shoes to a funeral, said yes to a calling that scared you, or needed someone to tell you that ministry is messy and holy at the same time - this book was written for you.

They Didn't Teach This in Seminary is the second title published under Filossaint Press by Pastor Peggy Filossaint, author of Falling in Love with Jesus.