Read Sarah’s article for The Buechner Review in May 2024
Sarah Clarkson is an author whose work explores the intersection of story, suffering, and beauty.
She studied theology (BTh, MSt) at Oxford and is the author of a number of books, most recently This Beautiful Truth: how God's goodness breaks into our darkness (2021). Her current research and writing focuses on the gift and work of cultivating quiet in a profoundly frantic world. She writes regularly about books, beauty, and theology in various publications (Plough Quarterly, Comment Magazine, etc.) and in her newsletter, From the Vicarage. She can usually be found with a book in hand in the Oxford vicarage she shares with her Anglican priest husband, Thomas, and their three children.
Sarah was first introduced to Buechner in a season of crisis, when mental illness and depression deeply threatened her faith. Buechner's capacity to articulate the real grief of suffering as part of his conversation about faith, while also welcoming the radical beauty of God's healing presence, helped her to once more imagine (and trust) the possibility of God's arrival in her own difficult story. His writing broadened her spiritual imagination and made hope tangible.
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