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HarperCollins (Australia) Telling the Truth
A sermon arises out of silence, preacher and writer Frederick Buechner reminds us, and that silence is both an opportunity and a warning. An audience sits in the pews waiting and each of those who sits there brings with them a long and complicated history. How will you reach them? How will you awaken them? Tell them the truth Buechner says in this brief and powerful book. The Gospel begins here, out of this silence: it is life with the sound turned off so that for a moment or two you can experience it not in terms of the words you make it bearable by but for the unutterable mystery that it is. Out of this silence, he writes, the real news comes, which is sad news before it is glad news and that is fairy tale last of all. <p>This series of lectures explores these three ways of seeing the Gospel: first as tragedy, as honest sorrow and suffering--this must be faced before anything else becomes possible. From this comes the comedy of new life: a child born to Abraham and Sarah in old age, Lazarus raised from the dead. This is the folly of the Gospel--what Buechner will ultimately call the fairy tale. Drawing deeply from the well of <I>The Wizard of Oz</I> and other stories, he reminds us in this final chapter that there is a child in all of us, a child in touch with a truth deeper than the logic of tragedy. --<I>Doug Thorpe</I>
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HarperSanFrancisco The Magnificent Defeat
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HarperSanFrancisco WHISTLING IN THE DARK: A Doubter's Dictionary
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HarperSanFrancisco A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
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HarperSanFrancisco Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Who
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HarperSanFrancisco Brendan
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HarperSanFrancisco Godric
If you think a novel about a saint is likely to be a dry and dusty sort of thing, think again. Godric, a 12th-century saint--born of Anglo-Saxon parents in Norfolk almost to the year of the Norman invasion (1066 for those of you long unschooled!)--was a peddler and wanderer long before he settled into the life of a hermit in northern England, led there by the famous hermit St Cuthbert, who tells him, your true nesting place lies farther on, and until you reach it, every other place you find will fret you like a cage.<p>In <I>Godric</I> Frederick Buechner captures the voice and the times of this saint with a style that recalls the richly alliterative language of Middle English poetry. So too does it recall the beautiful earthiness of that literature, reminding us that this time of deep spirituality was also a time of real flesh and blood folk. And in some ways this is the pivotal point of this delightful (and at times comic) novel: these saints, like those that live among us today, become saints not by leaving the body behind but by finding a way to live more deeply within it. They find a way to turn it to glory. --<I>Doug Thorpe</I>
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HarperSanFrancisco The Hungering Dark
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HarperSanFrancisco The Longing for Home
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HarperSanFrancisco WISHFUL THINKING: A Seeker's Abc
A kind of mongrel litter by way of Pascal, Voltaire and Ambrose Bierce, this theological run through the alphabet goes from Abraham and Agnostic straight through to YWHW and Zaccheus--the tax collector who shimmied up the tree on Palm Sunday to get a good look at Jesus. In between we get a heady brew of humour and wisdom. On Anger, for example, Buechner writes: Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun ... In many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. Or this, on wine: Unfermented grape juice is a bland and pleasant drink ... [but] it is a ghastly symbol of the life blood of Jesus Christ, especially when served in individual antiseptic, thimble-sized glasses. Wine is booze, which means it is dangerous and drunk-making. It makes the timid brave and the reserved amorous. It loosens the tongue and breaks the ice especially when served in a loving cup. It kills germs. As symbols go, it is a rather splendid one.<p>And the book's title? Find it under W: Christianity is mainly wishful thinking ... Sometimes wishing is the wings the truth comes on. Sometimes the truth is what sets us wishing for it. --<I>Doug Thorpe</I>
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HarperSanFrancisco Listen to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner
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Zondervan Publishing House Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
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HarperSanFrancisco The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found
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HarperSanFrancisco The Son of Laughter
The Bible's account of Jacob is a pungent seed found in a tomb, wrote the poet James Merrill about this novel. Frederick Buechner has planted it and the result is this beautiful swaying tree of a book. The fact that Merrill was an old friend of Buechner's does not disqualify this eloquent testimony. Indeed, Jacob is powerfully translated here through Buechner's honest and humorous--and cantankerous--voice. You see a living, human character, as always in Buechner's work, whether fiction or non-fiction. From this archetypal tale of feuding brothers he draws a story of family and fear, and a tale of a living God with whom Jacob wrestles in more ways than one. The tale of this life is a rich one: the two wives, Leah and Rachel, the journeys and the dreams--all of it takes on a colouring that is both strange and yet familiar: here is a Jacob both larger than life and yet very much human, very much one of us. --<I>Doug Thorpe</I>
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HarperSanFrancisco The Book of Bebb Ri
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HarperSanFrancisco Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say
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Paraclete Press The Faces of Jesus: A Life Story
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Church Publishing Inc The Christmas Tide
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