Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Bearing the Unbearable

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“A rich resource for pastoral caregivers and lay readers who seek to foster hope and healing in hard times. . . . Compelling and clear, Bearing the Unbearable brings into conversation a wide range of writers involved in clinical and pastoral work, synthesizing their contributions in a graceful gathering of insights that is shaped and made new by Hunsinger's own generous reflections on the role of prayer, humility, empathy, and openness to the Holy Spirit in the intimate work of accompanying others as they walk the dark stretches on their life paths.”

Dust and Prayers

Arts & Literature

“Bartow's poems serve their purposes with dignity and grace. Appropriating and adapting traditional forms, he has commemorated not only the large events that give shape to specific lives--birth, death, marriage--but also the small moments in which grace becomes visible in a squirrel, a shaft of light on a forest path, an awakened memory of an old teacher. We hear in these poems echoes of Herbert, Emerson, and Frost, and of the biblical stories and scenes that deeply inform the poet's sensibility and frame his understanding of 'ordinary' life, which insists, like Hopkins, that nothing is really ordinary, because 'it is all a purchase, all a prize.'”

Religion in The Handmaid's Tale

Arts & Literature

“This helpful guide will equip readers to appreciate the rich layers of irony in Atwood’s dark, timely dystopian vision. It invites deeper reflection on the emotional and social complexities of gender roles, uses and abuses of power, and the dangers of misreading.”