Gregory Wolfe

Sects, Love, and Rock & Roll

Arts & Literature

“There's so much to love here: nostalgia tempered by wry humor; a slice of rock and roll history rich in detail yet anchored in emotions we all share; a series of tart but ultimately generous insights into the foibles of a religious subculture. Joel Hartse's memoir is a postmodern 'pilgrim's progress,' the story of a young man in search of truth and beauty, rendered in a voice that is at once self-deprecating and heartfelt.”

Silence and Beauty

Arts & Literature

“Mako Fujimura offers us a moving and illuminating series of reflections on one of the most powerful novels ever written. He helps us to understand how Endo's tale of martyrdom lives in the tensions between East and West, faith and doubt, trust and betrayal. Above all, Fujimura enables us to sense that grace can live—and inspire new life—even in the midst of suffering.”

Silentium

Arts & Literature

“Silentium is that rarest of books: it accompanies us, thoughtfully and compassionately, on a journey into tragic and traumatic experiences without giving into either despair or sentimentality. Connie Braun shows us how honest, artful language can emerge out of a dialogue with silence and enable us to experience both grief and grace.”

The Crack Between the Worlds

History & Biography

“In prose that is spare, lucid, and elegiac, Maggie Kast's memoir, The Crack Between the Worlds, tells the story of a pilgrimage and a conversion. A dancer and choreographer, Kast knows that the most expressive gestures--and words--are often the simplest, rooted in the dailiness of our lives. Her search for a faith that can embrace both the tragic sense of life and the ecstatic sacramentality of ordinary matter leads her inexorably to the church whose name means 'universal.' Readers will find in Kast's particular story something universal, moving, and true.”

The Faithful Artist

Arts & Literature

“Cam Anderson has read a lot of good books and that's part of what makes this book so rich and rewarding. But, far more importantly, this book represents a lifelong engagement with the arts and a deep faithfulness to Anderson's roots in the evangelical church. So this is a personal book in the best possible sense. It is, to quote Eugene Peterson, evidence of 'a long obedience in the same direction.'”