Brian Doyle

A Gathering of Larks

History & Biography

“A most refreshing, eloquent, wonderfully unassuming, gentle inquiry into the actual Saint Francis, and the song of his awed life in Carroll's awed life, and the humility and wonder of that mysterious man as lodestar, compass point, companion along the spiritual road. Compulsively readable and re-readable.”

A Man in the Making

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“I am so grateful for friends like Rick Johnson who diligently expose me to models and pathways and illustrations of how I can launch my three boys into godly adulthood. This is my job and I cannot and I must not give it away to another!”

Bad Dads of the Bible

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“and instead build a godly legacy through rich relationships with our precious children.”

Earning Innocence

Fiction

“Lean and taut but also somehow immense in mercy and attentiveness and humility; the sort of lovely book that you hate to finish, and slow down near the end, and ponder the people in the pages long after you have finished reading. A remarkable and moving and haunting work.”

Family Shepherds

Christian Living

“Rarely does a church see the husband and father as the key to shepherding his own family. Instead we have developed ministry expertise in the local church that seemingly no longer needs a man to step up and serve as the spiritual leader of his home. There are few mistakes more tragic than this one, and generations have suffered and will suffer if we do not call men to step up and serve as the spiritual leader. Family Shepherds is the primary tool that pastors and church leaders need to bridge that gap and to execute the building of the local church as God intended and has communicated in his Word.”

Jesting Angels

Arts & Literature

“I agree with Bazyn: one mark of a bad religion is humorlessness. I especially liked the odd music of his poems, with their unexpected cadences and images.”

Jesus Loves Women

Women

“'An honest, piercing, blunt, lyrical, remarkable writer about the endless chambers of joy and pain in the heart.'”

Where the Sky Opens

Arts & Literature

“I cannot remember the last time I read a poet with such burly, thrumming, love-addled music--dense and real and salty and singing, adamant and muscular and sharp. Read any three of these poems and you will be more awake, which is what the best poetry is for. This book is that kind of poetry.”