Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations.
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Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who "has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations."--The New York Times Book Review
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Frederick Buechner, author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, is an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent work is Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith.
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I DISCOVERED THAT IF you really keep your eye peeled to it and your ears open, if you really pay attention to it, even such a limited and limiting life as the one I was living on Rupert Mountain opened up onto extraordinary vistas. Read the first page
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I DISCOVERED THAT IF you really keep your eye peeled to it and your ears open, if you really pay attention to it, even such a limited and limiting life as the one I was living on Rupert Mountain opened up onto extraordinary vistas. Read the first page
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By J. Remington
Format:Paperback
Most daily devotionals that I have worked with in the past have often been sentimental drivel.
Buechner's excellent, concise and often poetic writing boldly confronts the daily battles a person of faith encounters. Eschewing simple HALLMARK CARD sentimentality and post-modern sound bite obsession, Buechner lays out a series of daily meditations that comfort, challenge and re-enforce as well as affirm one's faith.
I particularly admire Buechner's constant celebration of the purity of silence- the need for listening and contemplation.
An excellent daily devotional written by one of our finest contemporary theologians.
By Fred W Hood
Format:Paperback
I only thought that I had read Frederick's nearly best words!
While visiting Montreat one summer, I accidentally met the young lady named Stacey_____ who has the unending task of editing and selecting manuscripts to remain in Wheaton's Archives for his legacy. I wish I knew how to reach her...there or at The Chicago Tribune!
While visiting Montreat one summer, I accidentally met the young lady named Stacey_____ who has the unending task of editing and selecting manuscripts to remain in Wheaton's Archives for his legacy. I wish I knew how to reach her...there or at The Chicago Tribune!
This fabulous collection of his readings comes from the hands of his friend George Connor. He was outstanding Prof of Literature at the Univ of Chattanooga when we were students there in the 1950's! His selections from "A Room Called Remember, Wishful Thinking & Whistling in the Dark," are right on target for me!
When he writes about "autobiography becomes a way of praying," I am totally in agreement. Also with his most descriptive beauty in using such adverbs as..."enigmatically, inexplicably, and realistically, (sprinkled around)... Freudians and Jungians, prophets and poets, philosophers, fortune tellers and phonies all have their own claims about what dreams mean." I resonate and even reverberate with those words!
I was so excited to choose this very descriptive and especially relevant collection for my poignant needs in my life of writing!
Retired & Ret-read, Chaplain Fred W Hood
Format:Paperback
I liked these snippets when they were in context, in the works from which they were riven, rather than plunked down with an arbitrary date. I read them for awhile, then lost interest, and I've NEVER lost interest in a Buechner work before. Much better devotionals out there, whatever your theological leaning.
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I return to this book again and again. It doesn't ask that you believe anything in particular. It ranges over all kinds of topics. Read more
Published on Aug 12 2002
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Amplification of Life
Frederick Buechner articulates the beauty, pain, and irony of life so wonderfully. This book helped me see the mundane, trivial, and routine of my life as a source of joy and a... Read more
Published on Jan 24 2001 by sam twain
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A literary devotional for the skeptic and believer alike
Frederick Buechner is one of our greatest treasures--a wonderful prose writer, a great story-teller, an insightful theologian. Read more
Published on Aug 21 1998
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