Gordon Peerman

Beneath and Between

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“God talk can be such a loaded, tricky Gordian knot, but with her humble prepositions, Varina Buntin Willse effectively slices the knot. Her central insight about prepositions works as a narrative vehicle and organizer, while her personal stories of childhood and mothering take readers into the ripe territory of spiritual autobiography, a challenging genre to pull off but one that Willse executes beautifully. The way she weaves interspiritual voices, telling biblical references, and the sheer fun of playing with words is altogether fresh. Like Barbara Brown Taylor, Varina Buntin Willse is capacious in mind and heart. With so much revelation to encounter in every chapter and so much beauty to digest in the writing, you will likely want a pen handy when you read this book. It goes that tender and that deep.”