Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Kicking at the Darkness

World Religions

“Kicking at the Darkness is not just for the Bruce Cockburn fan club, but for anyone who longs to explore the implications of an imaginative Christian vision for the world—a vision that is heartbreakingly honest about brokenness and radically hopeful about the Creator’s sustaining promises. Walsh artfully and expertly toys with the many lyrical themes in Cockburn’s body of work, while maintaining an essential posture of humility and respect. Walsh might just be the single best scholar to engage this prolific artist’s work, bringing the reader over and over again to a sense of having communed with the Divine in the midst of the empire’s insanity.”