Next to Godliness: Finding the Sacred in Housekeeping

by Alice Peck

Book Overview

Explore the place where clean and holy meet--and chart a new course toward discovering sanctity.

I've always sought solace in cleaning.... As my husband and I packed up our apartment and cleaned the profound dust of the Twin Towers from our books and pillows, we used this shared ritual as an opportunity to reflect and heal. As my neighbor once said, 'Cleaning house is my church.'
--from the Introduction

Be they our kitchens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594732140
• ISBN13: 9781594732140
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

No Stepford Wives here

This book seduces you in for a chapter, and the next thing you know you have read the whole book in one sitting. It's surprisingly deep and best of all, not sacharine! Alice Peck expands on the concept of this most basic aspect of human life with a variety of unexpected points of view. And you don't even have to like cleaning to enjoy this read.