Jeffrey Bilbro
Biography
Jeffrey Bilbro earned a PhD at Baylor University. Bilbro has served as editor-in-chief of Front Porch Republic and as associate professor of English at Grove City College; Bilbro has served as associate professor of English at Spring Arbor University. Bilbro wrote Reading the Times (2021) and edited The Saint John's Bible and Its Tradition (2018) and Telling the Stories Right (2018).
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A Testament of Witnesses and Other Poems
Arts & Literature
“As an esteemed biblical and literary scholar, David Lyle Jeffrey has devoted himself to the word, and these poems are the fruit of this lifelong devotion. Deeply imagined and carefully wrought, they ponder the unlikely paths by which God’s revelation is translated and traditioned and, all too often, traduced.”
Arts & Literature
“Schmidt's poems embody his eager desire to receive and explore the world, a desire akin to hatchlings who stretch their naked necks to receive a worm, their beaks 'voicing / psalms and complaints to the descending parent.' These poems are the psalms and complaints of a poet making sense of the gift of life. Rich with theology, tradition, and insight, this book composes a lush liturgy.”
Christian Living
“Do you think nonfiction is more serious, grown-up, and useful than moving stories, beautiful buildings, and pretty pictures? Let Lanta Davis guide you through the Christian artists and makers who testify across the centuries that the stories and images we behold indelibly shape our souls. This book provides a needed antidote to the kitsch that clutters the hearts and minds of far too many Christians.”
Theology
“Deep Reading ought to be read and wrestled with by all those who want to read carefully and well, and it’s particularly essential for those tasked with guiding others’ reading in the classroom, the church, or the home. With its wealth of creative and practical examples, this book will enliven our efforts to read redemptively. In a culture where words more often cater to vicious appetites than challenge us to cultivate virtuous dispositions, this book is sorely needed.”
Arts & Literature
“In these well-crafted lines, Sarah Reardon finds the rhymes between biblical and mythic narratives of home and the particular, twenty-first-century realities of marriage, birth, and housework. She thus shows our dusty, makeshift dwellings to be icons of our eternal home. These poems to be shared and savored invite readers home, ‘a place perhaps not far but hard to find.’”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“What if the malaise that grips American communities is the fruit of a church that has failed to bear faithful witness to her King? Jake Meador's convicting yet hope-giving book calls the church to take up the practice of distinctively Christian forms of membership in order to serve the common good. Meador reminds us that when Christians pursue hidden fidelity rather than public praise, sacrificial service rather than personal peace and affluence, and patient catechesis rather than flashy policy proposals, it is then that they will bless their neighbors.”
Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In this moving, pastoral book, Nadya Williams plumbs the long history of assumptions and practices that culminate in what Pope Francis has termed our 'throwaway' culture. In the same way that the early Christian church dismantled the Roman Empire's commodification of human persons, so the gospel continues to bear witness to the intrinsic value of all humans, even those society deems useless. Williams wears her considerable learning lightly, and readers will find her narrative brings both illumination and conviction.”
Arts & Literature
“Each poem in this collection aims to ‘rout / confusion,’ to pull up weeds of vice or folly and till the ground for praise, illumination, and virtue. As a result, T. M. Moore has given us words that can be lived by amid darkness both existential and quotidian.”
Arts & Literature
“Pull up a chair and let this master storyteller gently question and correct the destructive stories we often rely on to make sense of our lives. In an age marked by narratives of stress-inducing scarcity and individual achievement, Jennifer Holberg invites us to instead live out truer narratives of abundant friendship and restorative hope. As the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has written, if we want to rightly answer the question, What am I to do? we must first answer the question, Of what story or stories do I find myself a part? Holberg is a wise guide to the faithful, life-giving stories that Christians are called to inhabit.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Felicia Wu Song begins with an all-too-plausible premise: that today's young people are best understood not as digital natives but rather as an indicator species. If this is the case, perhaps their rising levels of anxiety and loneliness point to a troubling toxicity in our digital ecosystem. Song's pastoral book also guides us toward ways that we can all begin the work of restoring a polluted social ecology so that we might enjoy healthier relationships with one another and with God.”
Theology
“If fear of ecological collapse threatens to induce paralysis or despair, Derek Taylor's wonderful book offers a christological antidote. These Bonhoeffer-inspired meditations remind us that we learn how to be creatures by looking to Jesus. Through a rare combination of prophetic urgency and pastoral encouragement, Taylor shows how fixing our eyes on Christ enables us to enact our hope without putting our hope in activism.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Don’t read this book if you simply want your priors confirmed. Laurie Johnson draws on her deep study of neglected streams of wisdom to imagine genuine alternatives to our dysfunctional ways of living and working together. If you’re exhausted by the cant and talking points that dominate cultural and political discussions, you’ll find Johnson’s sanity bracing and hope-giving.”
Fiction
“The Wrestler is a brief novel, but it packs a punch. It is a religious novel, but one that isn’t sentimental or cynical. It is a searingly honest account of two friends who undertake the strenuous, joyous labor of seeking God’s face. Read this book—grapple with it—and it will surely bless you.”
Arts & Literature
“Nathaniel Schmidt tunes his ear to the sufferer on the margins, the wounded lying neglected on the side of the road, the long-dead standing forgotten in the shadows of the past. These poems ‘voice a paraphrasing line’ that transfigures their laments and confessions into a stuttering beauty, thereby testifying to the ultimate redemption for which we wait in hope.”
Arts & Literature
“Translations gathers love poems, lyrics on natural beauty, midrashic meditations on biblical passages, gifts to beloved family members, and responses to Chinese culture and history. It is a remarkably rich profusion of poems. What links them all is the author’s delightful combination of wisdom—the ‘latter blooms’ of a life devoted to study—and his childlike joy and wonder. David Lyle Jeffrey describes his ‘random acts of poetry’ as contributions to ‘an unfinished conversation in which only God could have the last word.’”
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