The Sewing Room
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In these insightful essays, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton reflects on a broad range of experiences ministering among merchant seafarers, the homeless, the bereaved, AIDS patients, and others in need of personal and spiritual help. She shares honestly her own emotions as she grapples with the harsh realities of the world, while delighting in the humor and joy found in everyday living.
Crafton compassionately recounts the unique stories of the men, women, and children she worked with during her service as a port chaplain in New York and New Jersey and as a minister at Trinity Church on Wall Street. In doing so, she weaves together threads of the mundane and the traumatic, the lovely and the ugly, and the down to earth and the holy, creating an original tapestry of the richness of life.
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BARBARA CAWTHORNE CRAFTON is a popular preacher, retreat leader, and writer who teaches at Marble Collegiate Church and at the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, Episcopal Life, and many other publications. She is the author of many books, including Called, The Courage to Grow Old, The Sewing Room, Living Lent, and many others. She lives in Metuchen, New Jersey.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Sewing Room
- 2 The Quick and the Dead
- 3 Snakes of Three Generations
- 4 Eggs
- 5 Original Sin
- 6 Working the Waterfront
- 7 My Mother and I Have Gotten Along Really Well Since She Died
- 8 The New Math
- 9 Ada Goes Home
- 10 To Be or Not to Be
- 11 If I Should Die Before I Wake
- 12 The Saint of Lost Things
- 13 The Things Kids Say
- 14 The Quiet Hour Club
- 15 Our Lady
- 16 The Second Time Around
- 17 Closing Down Home
- 18 The Back Stairs
- 19 Never Tell a Kid She's Tired
- 20 The Girls
- 21 Father's Day
- 22 Up to Whitby
- 23 A Kind and Gentle Man
- 24 I Brag to My Friend about Baking My Own Bread
- 25 Men Are Very Delicate
- 26 Showing Off
- 27 The Tombs of the Medici
- 28 Le Hameau
- 29 The Pearl
- 30 Trouble Love
- 31 Some of Us Are Not Allowed to Die
- 32 Rachel and Her Mother
- 33 Feet of Clay
- 34 Ted Who Has AIDS
- 35 Lies in the City
- 36 You Look Terrific
- 37 Before the Last War
- 38 Love Me Tender, Aura Lee
- Afterword
