Sarah Parkinson
Sarah Parkinson is a writer and freelance editor who lives in the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband, who is a priest, and her three children. She has an undergraduate degree in Psychology, a diploma in Theology and an MSc in Social Development, Planning and Management. Some of her poems have been published in a Proost anthology, and she offers spiritual direction.
She has always found writing to be a richly rewarding means of making sense of the world around and within her, and it was this love of language that led her to end her career break by setting up a freelance business in proofreading and copy-editing. She finds she enjoys the technical aspects of language almost as much as the creative, and (so far) the work and the hobby complement each other very well.
Photo: Andrea Simpson
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Searching for a Silent God
Paperback £12.99
A thoughtful and engaging companion for all who experience times of spiritual crisis. Sarah Parkinson describes her experience of a time when God, on whose presence she had always relied, suddenly seemed to be absent from her life.
Lament in the Never-Ending Now
GUEST BLOG: As part of our January focus on Lament Sarah Parkinson, author of Searching for a Silent God, shares her own experiences of lament. Lament is at the heart of many stories and poems in the Bible, the heart’s cry of those who feel forsaken, bereft, abandoned, alone. A terrible e…
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Book Launch: Searching for a Silent God
Join Sarah Parkinson for drinks and nibbles to celebrate the launch of her new book Searching for a Silent God. Sarah will discuss her deeply moving experiences of how God can sometimes be silent and appear absent at the times we need him most. 7.30pm on Thursday 11 July 2019 at St …
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How I Accidentally Wrote a Book
GUEST BLOG: Sarah Parkinson’s Searching for a Silent God has just been published by Sacristy Press, but here she explains how this book came about almost by accident at a time when God’s silence had become unendurably long… I discovered the writing habit quite early in m…
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From the author's blog
- Dear Mr Johnson 5 years ago
- Let silence speak 5 years ago
- Tipping Points 5 years ago
- No wasted votes 7 years ago
- Dear Mr Cameron, 8 years ago
- Dear Britain, 8 years ago