Download or read book Trespassing on the Mount of Olives written by Brad Davis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems explore freely the familiar ground of the Gospels in the New Testament, often from an odd angle or unexpected point of view. Some are grounded in the author’s sense of the biblical present, others in the author’s or an imagined speaker’s present; all are accompanied by a triggering Scripture reference to provide background for the curious or a focus for further reflection. As stated in the author’s preface, “These are poems, not doctrinal or evangelistic treatises. Their task . . . is to work and wear well as poems.”
Download or read book The Mount of Olives written by Francis Saltus Saltus and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Heaven s Rim written by Burl Horniachek and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its very first days, the church has been lifting up its songs and poems from the earth to the heavens, whether in praise, thanksgiving, or lament. Join poets from across Syria, Europe, Armenia, Ethiopia, China, and the Philippines in raising their voices. Learn about these great Christian singers from around the world, many of whom are hardly known at all among English readers, yet who are often considered the greatest poets in their own languages. Explore the many styles and genres which Christians have used to express their faith in song, whether hymn, psalm, dream vision, epic, drama, lyric, or didactic poem. Journey through the lives of biblical characters, through abstract theological and philosophical arguments, through moments of intense personal grief and joy, through the lives of saints and terrible sinners, sometimes even through heaven and hell themselves.
Download or read book Let s Call It Home written by Luke Harvey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s Call It Home is a slow search for wholeness in the fragmented landscape of language, place, family, and faith. These poems offer themselves as touchstones on the dizzying pilgrimage of ascent and descent towards rooted ground, that place we both hail from and are forever approaching, the home we both know intimately and perennially hunger for. And here, on this road, if the conclusions are provisional and the destination—as seen from this end of things—shifting, the hope compelling us out the door is as certain as the ache that sings us homeward and the unshakable sense of a steadying hand at our backs.
Download or read book The Mount of Olives written by Henry Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Angel of Absolute Zero written by Marjorie Stelmach and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marjorie Stelmach’s new collection, The Angel of Absolute Zero, seeks to engage its readers in thoughtful reflection on our difficult times. The opening section of the book, entitled Canticle of Want, introduces the collection’s governing characteristic: these poems want a lot. They ask us to view our damaged planet and acknowledge our complicity; to question “how it is we have come to this” and take heart in our wish to be more worthy; to accept suffering and loss and yet feel gratitude, expect joy. In short, these poems aspire to “teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
Download or read book Original Grace written by Mary Aquin O'Neill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O’Neill’s Original Grace provides a fresh analysis of biblical texts and explores the rich tradition and development of Marian devotion, liturgical prayer, artwork, and dogma. It invites the reader to discover how our capacity for biblical and theological understanding matures over time, correcting our perception of Mary, the second Eve and the mother of Jesus the Christ, and of the place and role of women in church and society. This exhilarating book reveals the benefit that courageous questioning can bring to the church’s self-understanding and to the vital relationships between women and men. In it we gently discover that a wise and good God is our Creator, affirming us in our gendered humanity, still slowly teaching us what went on in Eden, in Nazareth, and on Calvary.
Download or read book Duress written by Karen An-hwei Lee and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duress is a collection of devotional poems for souls in search of spiritual restoration—its contemporary psalms, lamentations, meditations, and praises were composed during the “anthropause” when the world paused. A poetry of resiliency, lyric in pulse and contemplative in spirit, it will encourage and uplift weary hearts of wayfarers in a season of duress.
Download or read book Trespassing on the Mount of Olives written by Brad Davis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems explore freely the familiar ground of the Gospels in the New Testament, often from an odd angle or unexpected point of view. Some are grounded in the author's sense of the biblical present, others in the author's or an imagined speaker's present; all are accompanied by a triggering Scripture reference to provide background for the curious or a focus for further reflection. As stated in the author's preface, "These are poems, not doctrinal or evangelistic treatises. Their task . . . is to work and wear well as poems."
Download or read book Hawk and Songbird written by Susan Cowger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandemic at full tilt, the diagnosis came--cancer. Maybe you've known crisis or are walking a loved one through the terrible unknown. The heart plummets. The mind shrills. We blame genetics. Toxins. Lifestyle. How can we not blame ourselves? Can this be thrown on God? If we listen to the emptiness behind every unanswered why, what will we hear? While life and death circle overhead, heckle and intimidate, exhausting faith, these poems talk with touchstones around us. Eavesdrop on whispers for answers. These poems explore what we have--and what's left. Who made the hawk? And the lionhearted songbird? What do they tell us about courage? What else is present?
Download or read book Soon Done with the Crosses written by Claude Wilkinson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two excerpts from spirituals, offered as epigraphs, foreshadow themes in Soon Done with the Crosses. The first song, "One of These Days," suggests inevitable burdens that all of us must bear at some point, while the second song, "Do Lord," supposes a glorious reward for those who faithfully endure. The poems in this book form a catalog of varied trials--both historical and contemporary--drawn from art, imaginings, the natural world, and aspects of the human condition, coupled with questions about eternity. Though while the collection begins with pleas for some bright assurance, it concludes in yet another vigil through dark, lonely hours, longing for morning's clarifying light.
Download or read book Ponds written by J. C. Scharl and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ponds, Jane Clark Scharl explores the mysterious relationship between change and repetition: seemingly contradictory, these two weave together so tightly in human existence that they cannot be separated. Speaking in a variety of voices—from a young mother mourning her own mother to Penelope, wife of Ulysses, Persephone, and Theoderic the Ostrogoth—Ponds is a polyphonous meditation on loss and gain, activity and stillness, and the nature of God, both hidden and revealed.
Download or read book Wolf Intervals written by Graham Hillard and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Graham Hillard's debut collection are personal and world-historical, as remote as fifteenth-century Rome and as near as the American landscape. Here are poems of music, violence, faith, doubt, and the creaturely world, composed in the unignorable shadow of Holy Scripture. Here, too, are childhood and child-rearing, small sagas of fortune and failure across the generations. Like the dissonant chords for which the book is named, Hillard's poems seek resolution but find it only sparingly. A bold and surprising new collection, Wolf Intervals takes place at the heart of that quest.
Download or read book The Farewell Suites written by Andrew Lansdown and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Farewell Suites is a collection of poems dealing with death and grief and arranged in sets focused on different members of the poet’s family—a brother who committed suicide, a child who died before birth, a father who slipped into delirium as he slipped out of life. These finely crafted poems capture the movements of the heart and are stunning tributes to love, patience, acceptance, and forgiveness. Though focused on the poet’s own loved ones, the poems speak of and to the hearts of all readers, expressing our shared anxieties and sorrows at the passing of those we love. The collection as a whole is deeply comforting, being shot through with both human warmth and heavenly hope. Indeed, Lansdown’s farewells anticipate reunion, when at last our mortality is overwhelmed by immortality.
Download or read book The Mount of Olives and Other Lectures on Prayer written by James Hamilton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book House of 49 Doors written by Laurie Klein and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fowler House, with its odd nooks, dicey wiring, and vast, unfinished attic playroom, shelters preteen Larkin. And yet, the house speaks of secrets no one else will. Wild creatures weigh in: a muskrat, fireflies, snails, a vesper bat. The menacing garfish. Troubled parents take on repairs: clanking radiators, crumbling plaster, and beloved Uncle Dunkel, finally home from the war in Korea, his mind splintering. Over three years, lived in the moment by Larkin—and relived in hindsight by Eldergirl—doors open and truth, long-stifled, emerges.
Download or read book They Went Out to the Mount of Olives written by William Peter Schell and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
