Larry Woiwode

Sometimes It Causes Me to Tremble

Fiction

“Few books from a Christian perspective address, with honesty, the social and cultural issues that assault the ministry of the gospel of grace. Sometimes It Causes Me to Tremble addresses both these issues the way Jesus did—with stories or parables. Something of his ministry is recorded in the stories that appear within the larger story of this wonderful novel.”

Sunset Dreams

Arts & Literature

“Many voices of new poets emerge with such internal scouring that every poem looks and sounds the same. That is not true of the extraordinary newcomer Matthew Nies. He can compose, it seems, in any form or style that strikes him as necessary for a poem, and all of his compositions contain the breath of fresh, high-plains air. He writes with equal ease about solid rural landscapes and the environs of Washington, DC. Perhaps above all, he communicates a faith as uncompromising and complex, in its definitions, in the form it takes in several poems, as a reader will find in the poetry of George Herbert—with no simple answers, on a trajectory all its own. He will travel far in the cosmos he fashions as his own.”