![]() Her son, Tian, was born in 1996 after three further miscarriages. ![]() To supplement her income she performed as a clown magician at children’s parties and learning fire eating to boost her routine. She became one of the first women to be ordained in the Church of England in 1994.įrom there, she became involved with interfaith dialogue and broadcasting for the BBC. Her daughter Freya was born in 1988, a year before she started training as a priest. During this time she suffered two miscarriages and began to think about ordination. She went on to train as a midwife, and later became a Sister Counsellor.Īfter leaving nursing in 1985, she began freelancing as a journalist, writing for national nursing journals, and local broadcaster. Originally from Essex, her working life began as a student nurse in St Thomas’ Hospital, London where she met her husband Chris. “Baying for the blood of others who have screwed up big-time is infinitely easier than addressing our own messiness,” she wrote in The Power of Imperfection (2014). ![]() It was Scott’s conviction that she, and most people, are too complex to be slotted into neat categories of sinner or saint. Selfless wouldn’t figure either,” she once mused gently on Radio 2. ![]() “Goodness would definitely not be in a description of me. Ruth Scott was an energetic clergywoman, author and broadcaster, characterised by swashbuckling courage, a mane of strawberry-blond hair and an honesty that was invariably disarming.
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