Spring 2007
Dear friends,

It's been a long interlude since my last newsletter, so here are some highlights from the adventures of Sarah:

Last fall my husband Tom and I joined a community/hospitality house in east Durham, NC, which has been a wonderfully challenging and spiritually formative experience. The house is in an economically depressed area (okay, so we live in the Hood); and there are now four children under the age of three here, so there's never a dull moment! We welcome your prayers & questions (we get lots of those), and hope you'll join us for dinner sometime. If you're curious about the community house movement or social justice issues, check out these websites: www.newmonasticism.org;
www.catholicworker.org/ (though not all communities are Catholic; ours merely builds on the ideas of Dorothy Day); and
www.sojourners.com/.

And if none of this sounds like Narnia or Middle-earth or any of the stuff I usually write about, remember how the Professor took in children during the war? Remember the Fellowship's stay at Rivendell and Lothlorien? If it weren't for the hospitality of the good forces out there, most adventures would fail. (Know any world-weary travelers out there that could use a warm bed and a good meal? You get the idea...)

Onward. I've been accepted into the theological studies program at Duke Divinity School, so we'll be here for at least 2 more years. Classes begin this fall, and I'm excited to be a genuine geek surrounded by other genuine geeks!

Meanwhile, somehow I'll keep writing & speaking (or at least that's the plan)! Stay tuned for my two newest books coming out this fall: The God-Hungry Imagination: The Art of Storytelling for Postmodern Youth Ministry (Upper Room Books); and The One Year Daily Grind, a devotional for twenty-somethings (Tyndale).

So I'm curious: what would you all like me to write next?

Blessings!


 ►sarah@saraharthur.com

The task, and the joy, of writing for me is that I can play with the metaphors that God has placed
in the world and present them to others
in a way they will accept.

 - Kathleen Norris
The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry,
Liturgy, and "Women's Work"