Winged with Longing for Better Things
Sylvia Sweeney
Nov/2019, 192 Pages, PAPER, 5 x 7
ISBN-13: 9781640651425
$16.95
Rather than classical penitence, this book emphasizes intercession, solidarity, and preparation. Its aim is to help readers learn to view the world incarnationally and sacramentally. In rejecting one's own embodiment and the natural world, the earth is being irreparably harmed by our destructive actions. The book invites readers to move beyond sympathy for those in strife into action and advocacy on the behalf of the earth and its less powerful inhabitants. Photographs and poetry enhance the daily devotional readings.
From Church Publishing
Remember Me: A Novella about Finding Our Way to the Cross
Sharon Garlough Brown
Nov/2019, 144 Pages,
HARDCOVER
ISBN-13: 9780830846702
$20.00
In this sequel to Shades of Light, Katherine Rhodes finds her own grief tapped by Wren Crawford's struggles with depression and loss. Katherine reflects on the meaning of Christ's suffering and shares her own story of finding hope, while Wren moves forward in her commitment to paint the stations of the cross. Readers are invited into a similar journey of reflection through Katherine's words.
From Intervarsity Press
Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing
by Gayle Boss, illustrated by David G. Klein
Jan/2020, 128 pages, PAPER, 7x8
ISBN: 9781640601994
Pangolins and polar bears, olms, lemurs, and leopards. We share this beautiful blue-green globe with creatures magnificent, delicate, intricate—and now vanishing at a faster rate than at any other time in Earth’s history. Spend Lent with twenty-five of these wild ones. Vivid descriptions of their lives will fill readers with wonder—and grief at what they suffer on a planet shaped by human choices. Their stories thaw our stiff hearts and wake us to greater compassion—which is what Lent, meaning “springtime,” has always been for. These stories also wake in us a wild hope that from all this death and ruin, something new could rise. The promise of Lent is that something new will rise. In fact, as these stories also attest, our hope, though wild, is not impossible and is already loose in the world.
From Paraclete Press
