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Author Scott, Emily M. D., author.

Title For all who hunger : searching for communion in a shattered world / Emily M. D. Scott.

Publication Info. New York : Convergent, [2020]
©2020

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY SCOTT    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  284.1 SCOTT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  284.1 SCOTT    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  284.1 SCOTT    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 233 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233).
Contents Prologue: Communion -- I. Creation. Womb ; Quickening ; Fear and trembling -- II. Enough. Cardboard wings ; Three miracles ; Lost things -- III. Justice. Deep waters ; Good Fridays ; Empty tombs -- IV. Resurrection. Broken bread ; Distant seas.
Summary "Emily Scott never planned on becoming a pastor. But when she started a church for misfits that met over dinner in Brooklyn, she discovered an unlikely calling-and an antidote to modern loneliness. As founding pastor of St. Lydia's in Brooklyn, New York, where worship takes place over a meal, Emily Scott spent eight years ministering to a scrappy collective of people with different backgrounds, incomes, and levels of social skills. Each week they broke bread, sang hymns, made halting conversation with strangers, then did the dishes. But in a city where everyone lives on top of one another yet everyone is lonely, these gatherings filled a longing that most people-even Scott-didn't realize they felt. With tenderness and humor, Scott weaves stories and reflections from the life of her unlikely congregation. Recalling her journey as a single woman and a pastor looking for love and friendship in a city of millions, she discovers how small acts of connection hold more power than we realize in a time when our differences are being weaponized, and creates activism and justice work fueled by empathy and relationship. For All Who Hunger articulates the value of church as a place where people can hear not only that they are loved but that they are good. When members of Scott's congregation build relationships with their neighbors in one of the world's most unequal cities, they find courage and resources to begin working for a more just world. For All Who Hunger is a story about a God whose love has no limits and a faith that opens our eyes to the truth. There's a place for you at the table."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Scott, Emily M. D.
Lutheran Church -- New York (State) -- New York -- Clergy -- Biography.
St. Lydia's (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Church development, New -- New York (State) -- New York.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Church history.
New York (N.Y.) -- Church history.
Food -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Dinners and dining -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Church development, New. (OCoLC)fst00860676
Dinners and dining -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00893958
Food -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00930590
Lutheran Church -- Clergy. (OCoLC)fst01004005
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn. (OCoLC)fst01312516
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Church history. (OCoLC)fst01411629
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Scott, Emily M. D., For all who hunger First edition. New York : Convergent, 2020. 9780593135587 (DLC) 2020003073
ISBN 9780593135570 (hardcover)
0593135571 (hardcover)
9780593135587 (ebook)
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