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Part memoir and part home life design, Homes With Heart shares stories of creativity and purposeful living, offers guidance for how to choose "families of the heart," and shows readers how to strengthen their homes by turning their living spaces into loving places that offer welcome, refuge, and belonging.
About the author
Ruth Frost inspires people to create homes that tell their stories. Living in San Francisco during the twin epidemics of AIDS and homelessness, she worked closely with people disenfranchised from home and family. Her church community became a refuge of welcome, safety, and belonging, key characteristics of home. Ruth helped develop a grassroots national advocacy movement for the rights and visibility of LGBTQ people in the wider Lutheran Church. In recognition of her work, she received “A Leading Voice” award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry, Berkeley, CA. She is also a stained glass artisan who has created lamps and windows for homes and churches. After leaving parish ministry for hospice chaplaincy, Ruth settled into the quieter side of soul care, accompanying patients as they prepared to leave home to “go home” and helping them record their life stories and celebrate the love they would leave behind. Now retired and living in Minneapolis, Ruth enjoys time with family as well as leading workshops and retreats on creating “Homes with Heart” and “Families of the Heart.”
Summary
Part memoir and part home life design, Homes With Heart shares stories of creativity and purposeful living, offers guidance for how to choose “families of the heart,” and shows readers how to strengthen their homes by turning their living spaces into loving places that offer welcome, refuge, and belonging.
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“Homes with Heart: Turning Living Spaces into Loving Places offers us inspiring roadmaps to find our own true homes, no matter our circumstances. Ruth Frost paints a picture of what home can be, changing over time and responding to the needs of the larger community—from birth to death. I find myself saying, ‘You’ve got to read it because of this and this and this,’ but it’s hard to pick just a few examples. Frost ranges widely and invites her readers to do the same as they continue their own process of ‘homing.’”
—Jan Johnson, former publisher of Conari Press
