This concise volume of poetry offers a personal encounter with what the author terms "the radical pulsivity of life." To invite the reader to imagine and perceive this radical pulsivity found in the daily, intimate living of a human life, this book includes spiritual and theological poems, Christian prayers, and meditative poems on family and fatherhood.

Opening the Field of Practical Theology introduces students to practical theology through an examination of fifteen different approaches—ranging from feminist to liberationist, Roman Catholic to evangelical, Asian American to Latino/a.After an introduction to the field of practical theology and its broad range of practice today, the book features chapters written by leading experts in the discipline. Each chapter has an identical structure to facilitate comparison, covering histori...

“Lee’s lyrics have a tidal sweep as he moves between the universe within and the world without.” —Booklist, starred review

A finalist in the 2014 Indie Excellence Awards, this is a collection of prose poems on love, loss, longing and yearning, and on dealing with the vagaries of life. It is a small journey from the deepest emotions of love and loss to the sometimes overwhelming realisation of the beauty of life.

A new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen “Idiot Psalms,” surrounded by dozens of other poems, make this his most challenging collection yet. “Idiot Psalm 1” O God Belovéd if obliquely so, dimly apprehended in the midst of this, the fraught obscuring fog of my insufficiently capacious ken, Ostensible Lover of our kind—while apparently aloof—allow that I might glimpse once more Your shadow in the land, avail for me, a second time, the sense of dire Presence in the pulsing hollo...

A revised edition of the first book of poems by Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator of Rilke's poetry, The Book of Job, and the Tao Te Ching. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A short collection of poems, exploring the complexities of the human mind, its thoughts, critiques, and emotions. It explores the chaos that can be the human mind. It's both sane and chaos, rational, and irrational. All things that make us who we are.

What is it like for a person when all her dreams come true? Difficult for most to believe, for sure! But that is the story of Frances Smalkowski, CSFN -- nun, nurse, poet, very amateur guitarist/songwriter, psychotherapist, chaplain, spiritual director, and teacher. Imagine capturing some of the feelings that might be associated with all the above in one little book of reflection and poetry! That is what Sister Frances does in "Panning For Gold" as she looks in her "pan" retrospectively an...

Chronicling a journey of faith, from its hesitant beginnings to an assurance of being deeply loved, this reprint of Pat Marsh's best-selling anthology is as fresh and engaging today as when it first appeared in print. This collection of simple meditations is a rich resource for reflection, worship and personal prayer."...the story of a journey, a love affair ... growing in silence."Ann Lewin, Christian poet & retreat leader"...touches o...

Stephen Cherry's latest book is a sequence of beautifully crafted prayer-meditations, providing simple yet profound spiritual nourishment for the Lenten season. The book gives an engaging introduction to the different ways that prayer can work in the lives of the busiest of Christians. Barefoot Prayers is ideal for people who may have little time for sitting and reading but more time for thinking and reflecting.

She has faltered and risen. She is her own ‘Messiah’. The recess of a woman’s heart contains untold tales and enigmatic waves. This collection of short poems entitled ‘Messiah’ springs right from this recess; the infinite source wherein she derives indomitable strength to be herself in this unruly world. These are not just verses; they encompass a woman’s identity in this mad rush where she dies to pause for breath. Each of these verses is a spontaneous ...

Empty shells are on the shoreThe living ones are out to sea.Come then and follow meI have some friends with a boatAWSfrom And He Descended Into HellSo begins an invitation to a journey. In this moving collection of poems, Al Starkey travels into vast and often uncertain territory. He grapples with an array of topics and questionslove, despair, joy, darkness, hope, ignorance, wisdom, injustice, failure, faith, growing old, death, heaven and helltak...