Luci Shaw
Biography
Luci Shaw (1928–2025) wrote Thumbprint in the Clay, Adventure of Ascent, and Breath for the Bones.
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Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“A visionary, Tracy Balzer draws us in to a vivid sense of what holiness looks like, feels like. She demonstrates how anyone who experiences this transformative power can never again be the same--it is that radical.”
History & Biography
“What strikes me, as I read right through these riveting recollections of Leighton Ford's life, is a story of divine gift and calling, of searching and finding. The result was a long and fruitful ministry both in North America and abroad, where Ford's abundant gifts were in service to the God whose direction he not only listened for but heard and obeyed to the glory of God.”
History & Biography
“What fun, and what a delight it is to gain these fresh and careful insights into the life of Madeleine L’Engle, literary icon and dear friend whose imagination and storytelling has become the stuff of legend! Through the narratives of the friends and family who knew and loved her, Sarah Arthur has used her vivid gifts of words and insights to bring Madeleine to life. Read, enjoy, and be enlarged by these stories.”
Arts & Literature
“Don Martin's new poetry not only sheds new light on Lewis's life and vision, but enlarges, crystallizes, and embodies themes of import to Lewis, and to all of us as readers. Conspiracy of Light is an expansive, exploratory, and reflective invitation to fresh understandings of Lewis, who, a poet himself, might find in these imaginative re-creations a worthy tribute. Martin's penetrating yet accessible poems shine their points of light on Lewis and on life.”
Contemporary Art and the Church
Arts & Literature
“What a rich and vibrant colloquy on the visual arts and theology! I can hear the voices behind the words—multivalent, wise, contemporary, galvanizing. They offer a comprehensive understanding of CIVA, the growing movement that partners faith with contemporary art.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“If anyone can speak truly about a personal pilgrimage into an ‘anchorhold’ of profound faith, it is Susan Creighton. . . . Her story will speak to any seeking soul as it has to mine.”
Arts & Literature
“In Duress, we are invited into the poet’s wide embrace of the universe. Karen An-hwei Lee’s poems flow like dream scenes, visions of the creation to which we are granted entry in the glancing beams of sunlight and God-light. The detailed generosity of her impulses enfolds us, part of the wide and richly detailed span of the creation she celebrates. Read these poems and welcome her words until they spark your own delighted responses!”
Arts & Literature
“In this mix and match of Scripture and cultural history, Bazyn opens up connections that sometimes challenge, often dazzle. Worth a thoughtful and thorough reading.”
“Jane Kenyon is a redemptive poet. The raw materials of her living — the landscapes, the garden, the paradoxes of faith, depression, and illness — form the stuff of her profound creative work. Using examples from her writings, both prose and poetry, John Timmerman perceptively describes the unfolding of Kenyon's life as a poet and shows how many of her poems happened — their drafting and revision — as well as how the details of her life in New Hampshire prove to be the hooks on which her marvelous poems hang.”
Christian Living
“David, vaulter of walls, troop-crusher, flawed and passionate poet, never fails to capture the Christian imagination because of his whole-hearted lust for God. Now, Eugene Peterson examines this shepherd-king through the magnifying lenses of the people and events in his life and suggests new and powerful possibilities for the divine-human link in our own time and culture”
Arts & Literature
“Luke Harvey’s poetry is the book of his own life, in which he observes himself writing. A master of guileful word play, Harvey’s poetic skill with the way words on the page play against each other make this riveting reading. These are poems vivid with details of family dynamics. His gentle but pointed observations come across as prismatic as life itself, his verbiage dense, rich, and spare in defining the earthbound edges of life.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Many devout Christian believers are unaware of the richness to be found in the Christian calendar year, with its high and low points, its celebrations, its times of self-examination and repentance, and even what is known as 'ordinary time.' Bobby Gross, who began to live the seasons of the Christian year as an adult, celebrates the story of Jesus' life through liturgy. This is a bountiful resource, thought-provoking, informative and motivational, showing how liturgy can help us in our deep need to pursue God and a holy life.”
Arts & Literature
“With great skill, Malcolm Guite has combined able scholarship, poetic eloquence, a grasp of history, and a penetrating spiritual intelligence to unpack and reweave the threads of Coleridge's wondrous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Engrossing and eminently readable.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Want to build a family culture with God at the heart of it? With deep conviction (but no hint of condescension) Tim Stafford offers creative, workable advice coupled with flexibility and humor. I'd have valued this book immensely when my own family was young!”
Arts & Literature
“Writing from within the very heart of pain, exhaustion, and a search for meaning, Katy Bowser Hutson lays open her questioning heart in a way that a reader will want to join her in negotiating with God for survival and relief. This is profitable reading for those of us whose want to do business with the God of salvation and healing.”
Science & Faith
“Grace, beauty, humor, and truth-telling combine in Leah Kostamo's story of the growth of A Rocha, a grassroots organization in which she and her husband Markku have been world-changers for good. This is a fascinating narrative in which committed environmentalists respond to God's call to renew our planet and our souls.”
Arts & Literature
“Each of these poems makes you want to descend to its heart and discover the precious metal there. D. S. Martin knows how to evoke the mystery that lies beneath the relationships we have with ourselves, each other, and God. This is skillful and probing poetry.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“When two en-Spirited people, wife and husband, join to offer their gifts of writing and art in a single volume, the blessing is doubled for readers. As David and Phaedra Taylor share in this book what moves and inspires them, it will speak into your heart and mind as their words and images rise from the page to enrich you.”
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