Luci Shaw
Biography
Luci Shaw (1928–2025) wrote Thumbprint in the Clay, Adventure of Ascent, and Breath for the Bones.
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Arts & Literature
“This poet–priest serves well both earth and heaven, joining them to celebrate the voice of the God who speaks into our own earth–language the echoes of heaven as they arrive to his attentive, listening ear.”
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“Kolin dresses the most mundane of events and sightings in the garments of color and texture that bring his poems home in the mind’s eye. He outlines the edges of things as they expand and divide, finding in the Bible’s characters examples of the shine and shadow that inhabit every age.”
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“Memories are tricky things, as Leax reminds us in this striking new collection of poems. One of his protagonists comments on the 'images pressed on the coin of memory.' But imaginative remembering is a true poetic gift, especially from a writer who hews faithfully to what is hinted at in Scripture. These verse chronicles imagine what Jesus's contemporaries experienced--brief glimpses of the Savior that breathe new life into our own understandings. These are poems of possibility. . . .”
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“The poet writes of a snowy egret fluttering down like a dropped handkerchief. She has the gift of acute perception, of finding ways to focus on the individual, lived-in encounters that seem to flow naturally into her life. She listens for the arboreal songs of the redwood forest, the whine of a buzz saw, the dark messages of stones, the confetti of laughter. It is her poetic practice to observe detail so that the events in her search for meaning open and reveal themselves. This is soul poetry of the highest order.”
Christian Living
“freelance Christian” Cathleen Falsani hoists a flag for Grace, impetuously jumping in where angels (and theologians) have feared to tread. Her enthusiasm flies off the page, but there's wisdom, too, as she uses music, art, and story to illustrate her understandings of Grace, that heavenly benison that resists verbal definition but brings faith to vivid life. Her vision of God at work is broad and bold, and I suspect he is smiling!”
Christian Living
“Emilie Griffin, a writer of intelligent spirituality, writes with compelling wisdom about the growth that must still come after growing up. Her memories are vivid and poignant and her view of the end of the voyage is bright with the grace that flows from a fruitful life.”
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“Isn't it remarkable that this poem, written almost a century ago, has now been brought to life? Of course, because the poem's author was C. S. Lewis, it will be of interest to a whole slew of Lewis lovers, eager for fresh material to ingest in the name of literary scholarship. Dr. Jerry Root, a longtime advocate and commentator of the Lewis oeuvre has given us a new reading to ponder, and in this annotated version of Dymer he offers an appreciation of Lewis's power of versification and command of language. As you read, you are made aware of a practicing wordsmith doing his exercises and enjoying himself immensely. His early studies with W. T. Kirkpatrick, which involved Greek and Latin, gave the young Lewis an understanding of how much of the English language evolved, and thus supplies even this early writing with a richness and depth.”
Preaching & Worship
“Though we feel drawn by the Spirit into holy space to see and worship God, what we call worship too often reflects merely our own needs and desires. Yet how we worship God must be linked with why we worship him, the central Storyteller of all creation. A wise and deep researcher, Robbie Castleman showcases how story-shaped liturgical patterns form the seasons of the Christian year.”
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“The reader can almost taste the emotions that rise in the reading of these raw poems. Deeply personal and evocative, the vivid images rise from the words like a kind of fragrant incense that elicits for us the poet’s world, her desire for fruitfulness, her spirit’s struggle, her courage to persist.”
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“In this detailed overview and synthesis, Cameron Anderson opens up the mysteries of contemporary art, describing how works of art may operate as lenses through which to view the seen and unseen within culture. This illuminating book allows the double foci on faith and art to converge, introducing us to the worldview of the Ultimate Artist.”
Theology
“Beauty, a unique aspect of God's grace, is a universal that invites us to turn a corner, glimpsing transcendence and joining the earthly with the heavenly in those moments when God reveals his magnanimity and magnificence. This elegantly translated text allows us to see through the eyes of some of the great theological thinkers and observers in human history. If you are sick of banality and superficiality, dive into Bruno Forte's Portal of Beauty and be refreshed and enlarged.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“'Something deep and sturdy' is how Julie Lane-Gay characterized the power resident in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer when she was first invited to make it a part of her daily life. As a mother of children and editor at Regent College, her times of devotional reading and prayer were limited. But in this glowing new book she details how the seminal ancient prayers and responses of the prayer book began to sink into her spirit, becoming as warm and powerful as glowing coals as they fed her burgeoning spiritual life.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“With engaging honesty and vivid narrative, Michael addresses the deep fissures that erode Christian public presence and testimony.”
Fiction
“Painstakingly researched, melding seamlessly with the biblical/historical record, this fictional work is also powerfully envisioned, written, and realized by a woman writer. Rabbi Zoe Klein has put on the skin and soul of a female prophet/scribe in the time of Jeremiah, bringing a fresh voice into the patriarchal story. How significantly this has enriched me! How much I want others to be as astonished as I was!”
Fiction
“It is no surprise to me that Calvin Miller's The Singer has captured the hearts and imaginations of so many over the past twenty-five years. When I first read it (in manuscript), I knew at once that this was a story/song for the ages, with its vivid details and its skillful knots and weavings of profound truth into words. And as a poet, my heart was gladdened to know that nonreaders of poetry were being welcomed into this poetic masterpiece, were entering and reading it with delight!”
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“In this luminous volume Wright combines the splendid attributes of practical guide with practicing writer describing what and how she has learned from her own soul telling its story. Admirable!”
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“I love the rollicking piety in this new collection from David Craig. As he says: 'The sun is so bright / it leaves teethmarks on his soul.' Here the timeless and the temporal collide as the apprentice tries on his varied opportunities like costumes. This is kaleidoscopic reading--turn the page and fresh colors and images flash. Brilliant poetry!”
Fiction
“Diane Glancy is the kind of visionary whose poetic spirit sees beyond, twisting the ordinary with astonishing verbal leaps of imagination, turning things inside out so that we see what they are made of. In these stories, she interweaves a personal narrative with visions and voices from another time, another sphere. The result is quite extraordinary.”
Arts & Literature
“What sinewy, mature poems these are, dynamic and packed with color! Klein's lines zero in on her life's crucial details that then enlarge, resonate, and fill the frame of the reader's imagination. Dig in. Enjoy. This poet knows her way through words to things too vital to ignore.”
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