Sarah Agnew

Hear Us Out

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Hear Us Out is listening that honors the dignity and worth of the speakers and their stories. The researchers reflect with curiosity and wonder on the potential of relationship and on how to keep the story alive together--the Sacred Story of hope and love, kept alive for generations through reimagination and the kind of generous connection between stories that we experience in this book. Yoder and her team help us to hear, invite us to connect. They challenge their readers to imagine relationships that nurture stories sacred and personal, lived individually and communally, for the well-being of us all. Not for the survival of the church, but for the well-being of us all--which is the story of life.”

Swimming in the Lake of Fire

Arts & Literature

“As these poems develop themes (‘Lines to Christ’ and ‘Judas’) and echo rhythms (‘Rain’ and ‘A Mighty Wind’), the reader is carried through highs and lows of human story and breadth of biblical stories, moments in history and places in creation, in poignant, thought-provoking poetry, sometimes all at once, as with the communion of poet with God, humans, and creation in ‘Rain Song.’ Here, all is sacred, all ordinary, all profound.”