by Sarah Arthur | Oct 1, 2018 | Literature
Madeleine L’Engle, the celebrated author of A Wrinkle in Time (winner of the 1963 Newbery Award for Children’s Literature) knew the darkness of loss, particularly in relationships, only too well. When her son Bion died in 1999, here was a story Madeleine couldn’t...
by Sarah Arthur | Dec 1, 2017 | Literature
Many of us, when charting the timeline of our lives, can point to a moment when a story or poem happened. It happened the way an accident or a record-breaking snowfall happened: it was perhaps expected, perhaps not. One moment we were performing the usual...
by Sarah Arthur | Feb 1, 2017 | Faith and Culture, Relationship
I knew that my future husband, Tom, was a different kind of guy when he announced on one of our first dates, “So, I have this lifelong mission statement.” First of all, anyone who knows my husband is not surprised. Tom is nothing if not intentional. Everything from...
by Sarah Arthur | Dec 1, 2016 | Faith and Culture
In time, the sons of men filled the earth with their evil deeds. And God beheld the desolate wastes the soiled streets the bitter brown of barren fields and the sin of the world cut him to the heart. “I will blot from the earth the memory of these things....
by Sarah Arthur | Feb 29, 2016 | Writing
Recently I had the privilege of editing a collection of writings for the seasons of Lent and Easter, which meant I got to read a lot of great books. And by a lot, I mean hundreds. Every time I went to the local library to pick up materials on hold, the librarian would...
