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Casting Off: Finding Faith for Change
Living in a time of accelerated change, many of us have begun to experience a sense of spiritual and psychological homelessness. Traditionally, this book suggests, one religious response has been to provide a rock of certainty to which strugglers can cling (an example being the Alpha course). But can this limited picture of home possibly satisfy our need for different kinds of spiritual and psychological homes at different stages of our lives? Casting Off explores these matters in the context of the liberating idea that as we grow in Christian maturity, our understanding of home changes, until it is not a fixed place at all but rather a way of being.
128 pages, Paperback
First published February 18, 2005
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About the author
Ruth Scott
59 books1 followerRuth Scott was an energetic clergywoman, author and broadcaster, characterised by swashbuckling courage, a mane of strawberry-blond hair and an honesty that was invariably disarming.
“Goodness would definitely not be in a description of me . . . Selfless wouldn’t figure either,” she once mused gently on Radio 2. It was Scott’s conviction that she, and most people, are too complex to be slotted into neat categories of sinner or saint. “Baying for the blood of others who have screwed up big-time is infinitely easier than addressing our own messiness,” she wrote in The Power of Imperfection (2014).
Originally from Essex, her working life began as a student nurse in St Thomas’ Hospital, London where she met her husband Chris. She went on to train as a midwife, and later became a Sister Counsellor.
She married Chris, a vicar, in 1982.
After leaving nursing in 1985, she began freelancing as a journalist, writing for national nursing journals, and local broadcaster. During this time she suffered two miscarriages and began to think about ordination.
Her daughter Freya was born in 1988, a year before she started training as a priest. She became one of the first women to be ordained in the Church of England in 1994.
From there, she became involved with interfaith dialogue and broadcasting for the BBC.
To supplement her income she performed as a clown magician at children’s parties and learning fire eating to boost her routine. Her son, Tian, was born in 1996 after three further miscarriages.
She regularly presented Pause for Thought and Good Morning Sunday on Radio 2, Prayer for the Day and The Moral Maze on Radio 4 as well as programmes on the World Service.
“Goodness would definitely not be in a description of me . . . Selfless wouldn’t figure either,” she once mused gently on Radio 2. It was Scott’s conviction that she, and most people, are too complex to be slotted into neat categories of sinner or saint. “Baying for the blood of others who have screwed up big-time is infinitely easier than addressing our own messiness,” she wrote in The Power of Imperfection (2014).
Originally from Essex, her working life began as a student nurse in St Thomas’ Hospital, London where she met her husband Chris. She went on to train as a midwife, and later became a Sister Counsellor.
She married Chris, a vicar, in 1982.
After leaving nursing in 1985, she began freelancing as a journalist, writing for national nursing journals, and local broadcaster. During this time she suffered two miscarriages and began to think about ordination.
Her daughter Freya was born in 1988, a year before she started training as a priest. She became one of the first women to be ordained in the Church of England in 1994.
From there, she became involved with interfaith dialogue and broadcasting for the BBC.
To supplement her income she performed as a clown magician at children’s parties and learning fire eating to boost her routine. Her son, Tian, was born in 1996 after three further miscarriages.
She regularly presented Pause for Thought and Good Morning Sunday on Radio 2, Prayer for the Day and The Moral Maze on Radio 4 as well as programmes on the World Service.
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