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#4 – Zero at the Bone by Christian Wiman
Wiman’s got a knack for expressing the hard-won, tentative faith that seems the only kind on offer in contemporary America. →
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#6 – The Ninety-Third Name of God by Anya Krugovoy Silver – 2024 Best Reads
What to do with these strangely limited bodies? Perhaps poetry is the best defense we have against oblivion. As Krugovoy Silver shows, God is found in the reflected light of passing things. →
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The Midnight Diner & The United Methodist Church
We took the train by the river to see what prophets see →
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The Lightness of Abigail Carroll
She has a knack for going to the deep and sometimes difficult heart of things without flinching and yet returning with something like uplift and joy. There is a lightness verging on flight to her images and words. And a reassuring faithfulness in her discipline of witness. →
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Christian Wiman Cuts Close to the Bone Again
Here is a scrapbook, a glorious one, that dabbles in autobiography, poetry, biblical exegesis, and compendia of quotations from some of literature and spirituality’s greatest lights. Is it seamless? Far from it. But should you submit to the grim and magnificent ride? Absolutely. →
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Mr. Zahnd’s Wild Ride to the Cross
Zahnd, a longtime Missouri pastor of Word of Life Church, drinks deeply from the culture around him as well as from the resources of the Christian tradition. And he finds God everywhere. →
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The Headlong Poetry of Laura Martin
“I know then that everything is fragile/and that everything does not have to last/to be eternal.” — Laura Martin →
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#6 – Fatal by Kimberly Johnson – 2022 Best Reads
I’ve gushed about Kimberly Johnson’s poetry on this blog before. Called Johnson “one of our best living poets.” Noted that she is “the rare poet who consistently evokes for me the presence of the barely-cloaked divine.” Credited her with making me a daily reader of poetry. So when Johnson produced a new collection in 2022,… →
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#8 – Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell – 2022 Best Reads
Katherine Rundell is a scholar but she doesn’t write like one. A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Rundell has made a name in children’s books, but with this biography she has brought to life one of the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan Age. And she has done it with a very light touch.… →
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#7–Braided Creek–2021 Best Reads
If you’ve followed this Best Reads exercise before you know that a 2021 Best Read doesn’t have to have been a book published in 2021, although more recent books do get more weight in the discernment process. So far we’ve had three great 2021 books, but this one from 2003 had to make the list.… →
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