J. Barrie Shepherd

Biography

J. Barrie Shepherd is Minister Emeritus of The First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, where Shepherd previously served as Senior Minister. Earlier, Shepherd was senior minister of Swarthmore Presbyterian Church and worked in college and university chaplaincy and teaching. Shepherd was a William Belden Noble lecturer at Harvard and a Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale. Shepherd's books include Destination Bethlehem (2015), Between Mirage and Miracle (2012), and Encounters (2012).

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Be Still!

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Gordon Stewart has a way with words, a clean, clear, concise, and yet still creative way with words, a way that can set the reader almost simultaneously at the blood-stained center of the timely--the urgent issues of our day--and also at the deep heart of the timeless, those eternal questions that have forever challenged the human mind. Stewart looks at terror, Isis, and all their kin, from the perspective of Paul Tillich and, yes, John Lennon. He moves from Paris, Maine, by way of the town drunk, toward the City of God. This is strong medicine, to be taken in small, but serious doses. Wear a crash helmet!”

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Arts & Literature

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