Jill Peláez Baumgaertner
Arts & Literature
“These are rich and beautiful poems that sing the sacred in ordinary lives of work and prayer, that fill the page with the longings and satisfactions of men and women focused on human need and on God. What could be more holy than that?”
Arts & Literature
“Sarah Rossiter’s poems are anchored in the world of images and drenched in nature: the march of seasons, the variety of flora and fauna, the fullness of the earth, and the flesh of human experience. These poems also reveal the surprise and assurance of resurrection. Her aged, bedridden mother ‘lifts her arms as if to fly.’ Holiness lies in Rossiter’s glimpses of grace and aching beauty—transcendence as ‘we’re carried / on the breath of God.’”
Arts & Literature
“Karen An-hwei-Lee has written her own book of wise and spirited psalms. There is, the poet attests, so much that we do not know, ‘yet we sing without sounding what lies beneath.’ And that is where these poems bring us—to the realization that amidst troubles, amidst the bad days, there are the good. . . . Furthermore, silence is not barren. It is ‘God, listening.’”
Christian Living
“With flair and refreshing clarity Sandra Levy-Achtemeier encourages readers to create coherence in their own lives. A compelling combination of psychological study, theological teaching, and autobiographical revelation, this book shows how active worship, ritual, communion, service, and the recovery of the doctrine of the resurrection of the body can lead to well-lived lives. This is original and joyful writing, convincing in its assertion of the hope of the resurrection.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Even though Thomas Dekker lived four hundred years ago, the prayers he wrote in this compelling collection strongly resonate with twenty-first-century life and concerns, even while presenting vivid pictures of lives and times remote from our own. . . . Out of print for almost a century, Four Birds of Noah’s Ark is a jewel that will not be hidden any longer.”
Arts & Literature
“This collection of poems is pure gold, filled with the gold of fall, of leaf, of goldenrod, of Frost's 'nothing gold can stay,' of money, even of golden oils skimming the surface of a stew. . . . These compelling poems offer glimpses of the holy present in the natural world, in human love between child and mother, between wife and husband, and in living and dying.”
Fiction
“The voice in these remarkable poems belongs to a girl, a spy, a recorder of daydreams and memories of a home and a war-torn, beloved uncle, whose grisly suicide was a family secret. These poems are handprints left in cement. Once you pick up this book, you will be unable to put it down.”
History & Biography
“A candid memoir of one woman’s political awakening and the local and personal consequences amid the tensions that have created national divisions. This is the story of the seeming impossibility of compromise on either side—and the resulting, tragic ‘divorce’ of a family.”
Imagination and the Journey of Faith
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“This book is essential reading for anyone frustrated by the lack of attention the contemporary church pays to the power of the imagination to shape and transform our faith lives. Its arguments and compelling suggestions should be read by all those seeking to live their faith more alertly and more passionately. If the paucity of faith so evident in our culture is a sign of the failure of the imagination, then faith is its flourishing, and this book is a vital guide offering sound theology and a downright good read.”
Arts & Literature
“Here, among so many other poetic triumphs, are a perfect villanelle; a corona of sonnets celebrating a long marriage; a poem for the unfallen twin towers and the high-wire artist who once walked between them; and poems for Sylvia, Emily, and St. Flannery. The exquisite pleasure of reading O'Donnell lies not only in the encounter of perfect poetic forms, but also in the way her words cut to the heart and celebrate the ineffable, the ecstatic, and the contemplative highs of love and life.”
Arts & Literature
“These poems grapple with life’s ambiguities, celebrate a long marriage, mourn the death of a son in a poignant and beautiful villanelle, and tell stories: about husband and wife who lose each other in a Monet exhibit; about a balloon trip; and about a trip to Ireland canceled because of COVID-19. Susan Spear has written a collection that is both completely current and totally timeless. She has revealed the human in imago Dei.”
Arts & Literature
“While these poems are anchored by Paul's familiar words, his directives and admonishments, Tania Runyan's plucky responses challenge traditional pictures of the believer's life. God's grace appears in many guises in her poems--from a frisbee laid bare in the melting snow to a drive on icy roads with a carload of children. These are spirited and intimate pictures of a suburban woman's encounter with holy mystery, often both unpredictable and oddly comforting.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“While grief is a process, it does not have to be an endless journey. This journal is practical and therapeutic in its overall approach. It’s inspirational in the meditations and writing prompts composed by an immensely talented poet and novelist who knows what it is to experience loss and nevertheless to journey toward hope”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Even though the poetic style is quite different, I am reminded of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Terrible Sonnets,’ filled with angst and doubt and the torture of God’s silence. Wendy Vergoz rehearses these themes, which are as old as poetry itself, but she asks the questions in a new context, startling, disturbing, anchored in the fallen world but simultaneously reaching toward a particularly elusive deus absconditus.”
Arts & Literature
“The poems in Things Not Seen are, paradoxically, clear-sighted, looking unflinchingly at the realities of our daily doubts, sufferings, and the lies we tell ourselves and each other. In the midst of these betrayals, however, are life-giving surprises and infusions of grace, pointing, like John the Baptist, to Christ crushed for us. They are Imago Dei, breathing incarnations. They are themselves icons, small masterpieces that lead us to full devotion.”
True, False, None of the Above
Arts & Literature
“In poem after poem Marjorie Maddox creates a rich environment in which the best teaching (and she is always a teacher) takes place in dialogue, even though conversations are not always neatly resolved. But she also consistently and convincingly points to what we need: 'The real, the spiritual, the Real.'”
What I Have I Offer with Two Hands
Arts & Literature
“This father writes for his sons but allows us to peek into their lives, both holy and mundane: the five-year-old with ashes on his forehead beneath the Burger King crown; the dinner guest at some unholy meal who hears about hand-feeding a fire eel; the creche with a broken Joseph, waiting, as we all wait, to be fixed. These are poems filled with humor, pathos, and light, the father negotiating those tricky boundaries between the sacred and the every day. Such a father we all need. Such poetry fills in all of the empty spaces in one’s spirit.”
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