Nancy Shaffer

Nancy Shaffer (1950-2012) was a Unitarian Universalist minister, a poet, and the author of Instructions in Joy: Meditations (Skinner House Books, 2002). She served congregations in Carmel, California; Glen Allen, Virginia; Evanston, Illinois; and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Skinner House Books

While Still There Is Light

Nancy Shaffer, Mary McKinnon Ganz

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In 2011, Nancy Shaffer's life suddenly changed when she was diagnosed with what would be a fatal brain tumor.

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Calling

Nancy Shaffer

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When you heard that voice and knew finally it called for you and what it was saying—where were you? Were you in the shower, wet and soapy, or chopping...
Prayer for This Church

Nancy Shaffer

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May each one among us have skin that longs to touch other skin: fingertips that long for other fingertips or whole hands and even arms; bodies that want...
Field at Table

Nancy Shaffer

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When I begin to bless this food and close my eyes I lose myself first just in green: how do leaves grow themselves this green and how do they grow at al...
Reception

Nancy Shaffer

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Two women, thin, one small, one gray-haired, sit side by side on a high-backed bench. The smaller one leans against the other, lays her head atop the...

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