Heather Walton

A Sacerdotal Poetics

Arts & Literature

“This fascinating book celebrates the divine ‘given flesh’ in the world. This ‘incarnation’ is encountered in poetics, translation, and the myriad ‘everyday sacraments’ that grace living and embody hope. It presents a scholarly yet intimate picture of one poet reaching out to another and generating, out of this encounter, new poetry that reconfigures, blesses, and exceeds the original creation.”

Apologetics without Apology

Apologetics

“In its dedication to dialogue and the common good, this apologetic performs its sacred obligation by placing love of neighbor at its embodied core.”

Hospitable Witnessing

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“This tender and compelling work offers a challenging theological reflection upon mental illness. It fully acknowledges the pain and ambiguity that accompanies mental anguish but through the use of deeply reflexive and profoundly spiritual tools it helps to bring this suffering within the reach of prayerful contemplation and ethical response.”

Literature and Religion

Arts & Literature

“The interdisciplinary encounter between literature and religion is given new form and vitality in this lively dialogue between two scholars from very different cultural contexts. Their conversation draws the reader in enabling them to explore unfamiliar territory and also rediscover a compelling strangeness within familiar literary texts. There are many treasures to be found here.”

On Becoming Wise Together

Discipleship & Christian Education

“This simple yet profound book requires ‘slow reading’. Its joys and challenges are not found in the security of closed categories but rather in the many conjunctions, confluences and intersections it presents. Family and friendship, community and Church, become radically open terms as we are shown how they become enmeshed together in transforming relationships and vulnerable entanglements. These take place not in some idealised sphere but in everyday encounters in the contemporary city. Wisdom dwells here, where all the busy roads cross. And her children are with her; waiting, working, and becoming wise together.”

Sense of the Possible

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Someone to Love, Someone Like You

Arts & Literature

“This lovely, vivid book intersperses short meditative essays with flights of terse and piercing poetry. Together they explore the wonder and the waste of life, creative work and unproductive labor, the mystery of death and the vulnerability of flesh. And always, always, the love of God. This is a love responded to in passion, pain, prayer—as well as through the rigorous, spiritual discipline of poetic construction. To read Veling’s poems is to walk beside someone who is both vulnerable and wise. By sharing his life experience, you gain some of the clarity needed to critique the form of your own life as well as to marvel at the love his poetry manifests.”

Wounded Images

Theology

“This is a vivid and challenging text that calls upon readers to re-examine and reconstruct the fundamental building blocks of theology through a powerful, poetic encounter with God’s wounded image in the literature of Jean Rhys. This meeting with brokenness is both tragic and renewing; it demolishes old paradigms and unfolds to reveal the surprising form of a tender and transformative hope.”