John Leax

Accompanied by Angels

Arts & Literature

“Luci Shaw knows that 'what must be announced' cannot easily be said. She knows that incarnation makes 'impossible demands' on the poet. A faithful bearer of the Word, she risks everything. Metaphor after metaphor, image after complicating image, she sustains her dedication to making the old story new. In her poems we find 'that flash of absolute knowing' that cannot be earned but is given by grace to the open and waiting.”

An Angel of the First Degree

Arts & Literature

“In these wise, radiant poems James Zoller proves his delight in the joys and challenges of love and language (the two are one). These poems like marriage are acts of consummate imagination revealing themselves not chronologically but in layers of complexity in which all time is one grace-filled moment. Beginnings withhold themselves only to be realized in the silences of endings. Endings are realized in the wordless wonder of beginnings. Every line rings true.”

Ash and Embers

Arts & Literature

“In the richly imagined poems of Ash and Embers, Zoller extends and deepens the achievement of a life in poetry. Whether he writes of alchemy, the natural order of things, marriage, military science, or the poems of Mao, his carefully crafted words lodge in the reader’s mind. They challenge and satisfy us intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually.”

One of Us

Fiction

“One of Us is a book of questions. How is it evil dwells among us? How does a church respond when murder reveals the lurking horrors of resentment, self-righteousness, judgment, and naivete? Through the meditations of church leaders and the murderer himself Diane Glancy uncovers the tension between the incomplete experience of salvation and the wholeness of a promised redemption.”