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Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director and author of many books. She directs The Geranium Farm, an institute for spiritual growth which publishes her celebrated "Almost Daily eMo," read by thousands of people worldwide. She was rector of St. Clement's Church in Manhattan's Theatre district. She was also a chaplain on the waterfront of New York, and served both historic Trinity Church, Wall Street and St. John's Church in Greenwich Village. She was a chaplain at Ground Zero during the recovery effort after the WTC bombing. Most recently, she was interim rector of St. James, the American church in Florence, Italy.
An actress, director and producer, she has worked for many years in combining the lively arts and the life of faith. Her books, articles, and radio scripts have won many awards, including numerous Polly Bond Awards from Episcopal Communicators and the coveted Gabriel Award for religious broadcasting. She is seen frequently on television both as a preacher and as a commentator on Hallmark's "New Morning" and "America at Worship," and has been profiled extensively in electronic and print media throughout the world.
Barbara Crafton is married to Richard Quaintance, sometimes better known simply as "Q", a professor of English literature. She is a grandmother.
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To view photos from moments of Barbara's life in the past 25 years
check out the post here on Debbie's Hodgepodge
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Email Barbara at bccrafton@geraniumfarm.org
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K.L. Joanna Depue is an Episcopal deacon and writer of "More or Less Church" on the Farm. She has served in five parishes in the Diocese of New York and been active in on a diocesan level in working with youth. In parishes she has written and directed liturgical drama and radio scripts; she is the rare songwriter who is also her own lyricist, and she is a stand-up comic. She was a chaplain at Ground Zero during the recovery effort after the WTC bombing.
Before her training for the diaconate, Joanna worked in community and regional theatre productions as an actress and musical director. She has held different "worldly" jobs, including working for a company that publishes a law directory, Prentice-Hall publishing catalogue department, dog sitting and training, massage therapy and, for over 27 years until her recent retirement, in the pension department of the United Nations. During her tenure at the United Nations she was appointed by the Secretary-General to the Panel on Discrimination and Other Grievances and was selected as one of six speakers from the UN staff on the occasion of the first commemoration of the WTC bombing.
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Joanna lives in Orangeburg, NY in a small home
with her beloved therapy-dog-in-training, Emmy Lou.
Email Joanna at deaconj@geraniumfarm.org
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Debbie Sharp Loeb is a teacher by training in Reading, Elementary and Special Education. Her teaching career specialized in remedial reading before becoming a full-time mom to her special needs son, David. As a craftsperson, bead artist, quilter, great cook, creative homemaker, terrific spotter of cool new products and ideas, she has created Hodgepodge where you will find: recipes, household hints, stories about children, friends and relatives along with other cool stuff, interesting websites, and much more. At Hodgepodge you'll find a friendly place where readers can share and exchange ideas, not unlike hanging out after church at a Sunday morning coffee hour.
She thought up the idea of "Pennies from Heaven" for the Geranium Farm as a fun and easy way in which children can raise money for Episcopal Relief and Development. Recently, she co-chaired a recipe book for her parish and someday would love to publish her own book from some of the ideas that have appeared in Hodgepodge.
Debbie lives in central NJ with her husband, Paul, her two sons, David & Brian, and Maggie, their ever comical Westie.
Email Debbie at debbie@geraniumfarm.org
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Buddy Stallings is vicar of St. Bartholomew's in New York City. "The Voice of the eMos" for years, you can hear his Mississippi rendering of Barbara Crafton's prose in the Audio eMos section on the Farm prior to August 2008.
A wonderful wordsmith in his own right. Buddy's "Thinking It Over" is published here on the Farm's "A Few Good Writers" section, with the kind permission of St. Bartholomew's, one of our favorite churches. Bill Tully is its Rector.
Buddy resides in Manhattan, NY.
Email Buddy at stallings@stbarts.org
Audio eMos from The Geranium Farm are currently read by The Local Farmer(aka Joanna Depue). Joanna also posts spiritual blogs of note, sources for music, liturgies, poetry, sermons, television series, films, meditations and prayers on More or Less Church.
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The Rev. Matthew Moretz is the creator of the "Father Matthew Presents" series of video blogs. The light-hearted pieces focus on issues of faith and ministry from the perspective of an Episcopal priest; a close-up view of the Episcopal Church in the 21st century.
In Fr. Matthew's words, "My faith journey began at the Church of the Good Shepherd while being raised in Augusta, Georgia. I had some excellent mentors as an adolescent. I discerned a call to the priesthood during and after my undergraduate at Davidson College."
At the end of the summer, 2007, the Rev. Matthew J. Moretz, formerly on staff at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Yonkers, accepted the position of Curate at Christ Episcopal Church, Rye, NY.
Father Matthew lives in Westchester with his wife Melanie, a doctoral student at Fordham University.
Email Fr. Matthew at curate@ccrye.org
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