Opening the Window - Seligman, Leaf

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Résumé :
Insightful and engaging Sabbath Meditations

Biographie:
Leaf Seligman began writing during her Tennessee childhood where she encountered the midway, tent revivals, and the Civil Rights movement. She has taught writing in colleges, jails, prisons, and community settings since 1985 and worked as a minister, a jail chaplain, a youth services caseworker, and a restorative justice practitioner. She is the author of 'Opening the Window: Sabbath Meditations' and 'A Pocket Book of Prompts'. Her current projects include a novel, a memoir, and a series of death row monologues, all attuned to redemption and belonging....

Sommaire:
LEAF SELIGMAN is the settled minister at First Parish Church, Unitarian Universalist, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. She has a master's degree in writing from the University of New Hampshire, and has taught writing at that university, at Franklin Pierce University, at Keene State College, and in New Hampshire prisons and jails. Her essays have been published in Creative Nonfiction and New Thought Journal. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, where she won the Billings Prize for Preaching, she has served as a volunteer chaplain in both a hospital and a jail. Leaf lives joyfully with her dog among the trees of southwestern New Hampshire....