Gary (Hrsg.) Schmidt

Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season

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Explore how the dormancy and difficulty of winter can be atime of spiritual preparation and transformation.For many, winter is a time of postponed activity¿and of shoveling snow, navigating ice, and trying to keep warm. What can easily be forgotten in winter's cold and occasional dreariness is that it can also be a time of shoring up, of purity, praise, delight, and play.In thirty stirring pieces¿from translated Sanskrit and Hebrew poems to Henry David Thoreau and Basho, Jane Kenyon, John Updike, Kathleen Norris, and Annie Dillard¿we share in the recognition of winter's hardships and celebrate the glory of winter as a spiritual gift¿a quiet t… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Felch, Susan M. (Hrsg.) / Moser, Barry (Illustr.)

ISBN: 978-1-68336-498-6
EAN: 9781683364986
Produktnummer: 20287498
Verlag: Skylight Paths
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.1 cm 594 g
Gewicht: 594

Über den Autor

Gary Schmidt teaches literature at Calvin College. He is coeditor of Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season; Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season and Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (all SkyLight Paths). He is also author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, a Newbery Honor book; Mara's Stories: Glimmers in the Darkness, a Fanfare 2002 Horn Book honor list book; Straw into Gold; and, with Lawrence Kushner, In God's Hands.Susan M. Felch teaches literature at Calvin College and is coeditor of Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season; Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season and Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season. She also edited The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock and Bakhtin and Religion.Barry Mosher, one of the foremost illustrators working today, has illustrated many books for adults and children, including The Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the King James Bible and Lewis Carroll's Alice: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.