The Sewing Room: Uncommon Reflections On Life,Love,And Work - Softcover

Crafton, Barbara Cawthorne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140158308 ISBN 13: 9780140158304

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

Synopsis

A wise, humane, and marvelously worldly collection of essays by a dynamic woman priest, The Sewing Room addresses the human condition with plain-spoken eloquence and bracing moral common sense, covering such everyday concerns as the extremities of life in homeless shelters and AIDS clinics.

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From the Back Cover

Barbara Cawthorne Crafton is among the first women ordained to the Episcopal priesthood, in which capacity she has ministered in both the richest and poorest sections of New York City. She is also a sensitive writer who addresses the human condition with plainspoken eloquence and bracing moral common sense. Cynthia Ozick writes, "The Reverend Crafton's purity of insight and pellucid voice suggest transparencies - one sees straight through them into the unshielded light of the plainest human truths. A shelf is dusted, a grandmother's sewing machine is recalled, mothers and fathers are praised and appraised, a lost child is mourned - and the weave of our lives is movingly unwound, ribbon by ribbon, until our hands are filled with rosiness and rue. Upon small moments large mercies are shed. Barbara Crafton's essays are everyone's heirlooms". These rich, moving essays will be read again and again.

About the Author

Barbara Cawthorne Crafton is a popular preacher, retreat leader, and writer. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, Episcopal Life, and other publications. She is the author of many books, including The Courage to Grow Old, Let Every Heart Prepare, Some Things You Just Have to Live With, The Sewing Room, Living Lent, and Mary and Her Miracle. She lives in Metuchen, New Jersey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140158308
• ISBN 13: 9780140158304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272