Peter Sedgwick

Cameos of Faith

Arts & Literature

“I have valued Toddy Hoare as a friend and inspiration for decades. In these poems, he distills both his years of attention to his people as a country parish priest and also his art as a sculptor, which brings alive the Christian gospel. The result is a lightness of touch and a depth of insight that repays reading again and again. The clarity and directness of expression matches his illustrations. A wonderful and life-enhancing book.”

Generosity and the Christian Future

Theology

“This is a powerful book characterized by humor, subtlety, and moral passion. While very learned, it wears its erudition lightly. There are passages of great theological insight, and one chapter of sustained fantasy and humor where an American Baptist minister becomes Pope--except that she is also a woman called Flora and the setting is a space-age Vatican X in Oxford one thousand years after the Reformation.”

Psalmody

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“From decades of living close to farmers, and the clay he molds into sculptures, Toddy knows God’s creation intimately. Now he fashions the psalms into poems of direct, blunt, cries of longing which speak of God’s abiding presence in the chaos of our lives. Both as poetry and spirituality, the psalms speak here afresh as only his rich life could make possible.”

The Christ Cycle in Verse and 3D

Arts & Literature

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The Cup of Blessing

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Uncle Peter's Story

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is a story which holds your attention from the very beginning, with ‘Uncle Peter’ being portrayed as a very human fisherman who grows to become the leader of the early church through his testing, with his failures being overcome by his perseverance and openness to Christ. It would make an ideal book to give to someone exploring the faith for the first time, with its vivid and direct style. I was enthralled by the story.”