New Releases by Walter Wangerin

Estas emotivas narraciones, algunas divertidas y otras dolorosas, siempre toman giros inesperados para encontrarnos a Dios en todos los caminos de la vida. Ahí se cifra la gracia que nos permite vivir con las respuestas que vemos y las que no. En esta colección nos encontraremos con Arthur Bias, el policía negro retirado que ama a los que odian; a Agnes Brill, la estridente maestra de piano de paciencia; Junie Piper, amorosa con las personas sin hogar; Melvin, quien honra a su anciana madre honrando a la niña en la que se ha convertido; Lucian, el amante de los ladrones; y Blue Jack, el instrumento de Dios. Los lectores descubrirán en estas historias una poderosa demostración del trabajo de Dios en la vida de todos nosotros. Encontrarán un lugar donde trabajarán incluso en la oscuridad, incluso en las luchas, incluso en las heridas. Este es el lugar donde entra la luz de Dios.

In Storycraft: The Art of Spiritual Narrative, celebrated author Walter Wangerin Jr. illustrates the power of well-told stories and shows how important embracing story is as an essential tool for preaching and teaching the gospel. The book offers a theology of story that is profoundly incarnational as the Word takes on flesh in practiced speech.

"Walter Wangerin''s Ascent/Descent is a book all but unique in my experience: its components are biographical, geographical, and--how to name it?--obliquely theological. But in all of the collection''s five sections, the principal word that leaps to my mind is lyrical. Rendering the elaborate narrative of his Virginia and Walter, realizing the hieratic voice of Rilke, even translating the Dies irae, so on, Wangerin''s mouth-fillingly rich language draws us so completely into his material that we are unable (and glad of it) to extricate ourselves. Pluperfectly absorbing!"--Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-2015)

Acts of the Almighty by beloved, award-winning author Walter Wangerin Jr. carries us sequentially through the full sweep of the Bible''s story in daily devotional readings.

Most of the poems in the first part of this book, "Six Seasons," were written according to formal strictures. They use various sorts of rhyme (internal or at a line-stop) and rhythms that match the motion of their subject matter. I''ve worked with traditional verse: songs, carols, quatrains, lyrics with refrains, and so on. They follow the seasons of the liturgical year from Advent to the green season of Ordinary Time. The second part of the book, "Leroy James Hopson," is written in free verse in order to allow for the development of a narrative with characters and a setting, an atmosphere and a plot. The entire story takes place during the night of November 10, 1974.

Many know the acclaimed author Walter Wangerin Jr., the storyteller who gave us the national bestseller The Book of the Duncow. In Wounds Are Where Light Enters, you’ll see how God’s love breaks into our lonely moments in unexplainable ways. Wangerin tells the stories of memorable characters facing the same struggles we all face as we try to trust in God’s faithfulness. Wounds Are Where Light Enters is a collection of stories that are warm, sometimes funny, sometimes not, but always taking unexpected turns to find the care of God in all the pathways of life. In them we find the grace that enables us to live with the answers we see and the answers we don’t see. In this collection we meet Arthur Bias, the retired black police officer who loves those who hate, Agnes Brill, the shrill piano teacher of patience, Junie Piper, precious of the homeless, Melvin, who honors his aging mother by honoring the little girl she has become, Lucian, the lover of thieves, and Blue Jack, the hammer of God. Readers will discover in these stories a powerful display of God’s working in the lives of all of us. They’ll find a place where he works even in the dark, even in the struggles, even in the wounds. This is the place where God’s light enters.

The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible is a volume of poems divided into three parts. The three parts are bound together by a brace of persistent and developing themes, as well as by the repetition (and the development) of language, metaphor, and imagery. Part 1 presents various characters (mostly African American) confronting death. The poems in part 2 are spoken by an unnamed narrator about his cancer. My cancer, actually, and my experiences. Parts 2 and 3 both descend into silence. Part 3 is a radical reworking of the ancient Mesopotamian epic loosely known as The Songs of Heaven and Hell. The poems are not a translation, though each derives from a separate song, and each uses the characters, the events, the worldview, and the stark imagery of Babylon in the third century BCE. In many respects, these poems have the prosody of the biblical psalms.

Acompanhe Saulo de Tarso numa viagem do Templo de Jerusalém e o martírio de Estêvão até um encontro transformador com Jesus na estrada para Damasco. Visite cidades que não existem mais. Reviva os olhares e as atitudes de cidadãos romanos e culturas estrangeiras. Seja uma testemunha das viagens do homem que levou o cristianismo a amigos, inimigos, líderes e escravos de seu tempo. Conheça o homem Paulo e sua história. " ...uma festa de cores e detalhes que trazem à vida o primeiro século - e mais impressionante ainda - a Bíblia. Não importa a sua religião; este livro é uma boa fonte de detalhes de uma das mais intrigantes histórias já contadas". Amazon.Co.Uk "Este livro sintetiza o que Walter Wangerin tem de melhor: conhecimento bíblico, capacidade de dramatizar, riqueza intelectual e o dom de contar uma boa história". Philip Yancey autor de Decepcionado com Deus "Apresentado como um romance... num excelente estilo literário... o próprio Paulo é recriado como um personagem crível e sua história inclui cenas dramáticas: naufrágios, apedrejamentos, prisões...". The Publishing News "Wangerin escreve com habilidade e inspiração". The Historical Novels Review "Wangerin é um verdadeiro erudito: quando não havia liberdade para inventar, foi fiel aos textos de Paulo. Sua prosa é forte e cheia de vida". The Irish Independent "Uma narrativa sustentada com muita habilidade... um casamento feliz entre pesquisa meticulosa e imaginação histórica... deixará o leitor em estado de admiração". The Tablet

In this new memoir by National Book Award-winning author Walter Wangerin, Jr., he invites the reader into the past to experience his loss of faith as a young seminarian, his struggle to find a place for his chosen vocation amid an ocean of doubts, and his eventual renewal in the arms of an inner-city church called Grace. With his inimitable style and keen eye for detail, Wangerin remembers his own story and gives it to us as an everlasting testament to the faithfulness of God.

Everyone who believes Easter is about more than bunnies and eggs will be grateful for this new collection of short stories that shed light on the deeper meaning of the season. Selected for their spiritual value and literary quality, these classic tales capture the spirit of Easter in a way that will captivate readers of all ages. Easter Stories includes time-honored favorites from world-famous storytellers such as C.S. Lewis, Leo Tolstoy, Selma Lagerlof, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Goudge, Maxim Gorky, Ruth Sawyer, and Walter Wangerin as well as many you''ve never heard before.

The long awaited conclusion to the National Book Award-winning THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW trilogy, from Walter Wangerin, Jr. Pertelote, widow of Chauntecleer the Golden Rooster, takes up his mantle as leader of the Animals as they seek safety from the great evil of the Wyrm and his children. Desperate to keep safe those she’s responsible for, Pertelote is travelling blindly, suffering the purposeless, undirected, but insistent journey as the new leader. Two other groups of Creatures are making their own journeys through the perilous land: Eurus the merciless yellow-eyed Wolf and his pack, and the sociable pair Wachanga the Cream-Colored Wolf and her friend Kangi Sapa, the Raven. When Pertelote and her band of Animals meet Wachanga and Kangi, she finds much-needed allies in her travels. Allies that become all the more valuable after cruel Eurus begins following the weary Animals with a murderous intent. When the disparate bands of Creatures converge on a hidden crater high in the dangerous mountains, they make a monumental discovery that may finally mean an end to their trials and tribulations. The epic journey begun in THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW reaches its powerful conclusion in THE THIRD BOOK OF THE DUN COW: PEACE AT THE LAST, proving the sacrifices of Chauntecleer and the Animals were not in vain. Praise for THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW:“Far and away the most literate and intelligent story of the year … Mr. Wangerin’s allegorical fantasy about the age-old struggle between good and evil produces a resonance; it is a taut string plucked that reverberates in memory” —New York Times “Belongs on the shelf with Animal Farm, Watership Down and The Lord of the Rings. It is, like them, an absorbing, fanciful parade of the war between good and evil. A powerful and enjoyable work of the imagination.” —Los Angeles Times Praise for THE SECOND BOOK OF THE DUN COW: LAMENTATIONS “[A] profoundly imagined and beautifully stylized fable of the immemorial war between good and evil.” –The New York Times

Seeking peace and respite after their devastating battle with the Wyrm, Chauntecleer and his wife Pertelote again lead the animals of the Coop. But their quest is interrupted when Wyrm once again insinuates himself into the lives of the animals. To defeat this ancient evil for good, Chauntecleer will have to face Wyrm again, not on the battlefield, but deep within the serpent''s lair, risking his very soul to ensure the safety of the animals under his protection.

A Bíblia como jamais foi contada. É comum lermos a Bíblia como quem consulta uma caixinha de promessas ou como quem abre um biscoito da fortuna num restaurante chinês. Raras vezes lemos os 66 livros da Bíblia de ponta a ponta. Esta leitura devocional e fragmentada da Bíblia tende sempre a ofuscar nossa percepção da narrativa única e linear que corre por toda a história humana. O livro de Deus permite-nos esta visão. Nesta obra, Walter Wangerin descreve a história de um amor que atordoa a imaginação: o amor de Deus por seu povo. O autor se concentra no relato da intervenção de Deus na história do mundo e descreve o panorama geral do envolvimento íntimo de Deus com a raça humana. Wangerin submete seus consideráveis talentos à pressuposição básica de que as Sagradas Escrituras são essencialmente o que dizem ser: a Palavra de Deus. O resultado é uma obra que já nasce clássica. Jamais nos esqueceremos dos olhos de Abraão, dos cabelos de Jesus durante seu batismo e da paixão de Deus que se volta incessantemente às suas criaturas.

Na dúvida entre ler a Bíblia ou um romance; faça as duas coisas ao mesmo tempo. Quando se aventurou a fazer uma narrativa romanceada das passagens bíblicas; Walter Wangerin estava pisando em terreno perigoso. E sabia disso. Para os cristãos mais conservadores ou ortodoxos; dar nova roupagem aos relatos das Escrituras poderia soar como uma afronta; ou mesmo heresia. No entanto; a reação do público e da crítica a O livro de Deus foi extremamente positiva; a ponto de gerar a idéia de uma trilogia; cujo segundo volume; O livro de Paulo; tornou-se outro best-seller. O estilo de Wangerin; ao contrário do que supunham os puristas; enriqueceu as histórias com detalhes históricos e culturais; além de emprestar-lhes uma atmosfera literária moderna. Agora Wangerin completa a trilogia com O livro de Jesus; uma obra surpreendente. A apresentação romanceada dos fatos que envolvem o nascimento; a obra; a morte e a ressurreição do Mestre transporta o leitor aos mesmos ambientes onde os verdadeiros personagens viveram. Ricas em pormenores; as tramas desenvolvidas pelo autor dão um peso ainda maior à dramaticidade dos episódios narrados nos quatro evangelhos. Fé; emoção; intrigas; ação; todos os elementos que compõem um bom romance estão nesta adaptação fantástica; que em nada compromete a reverência que os relatos bíblicos merecem.

After receiving his cancer diagnosis, Wangerin wrote letters about confronting his mortality, about living with the messiness of undone tasks and bodily weakness. These meditations present his testimony to faith, love, and the shocking reality of hope.

No story has more significance than this: the death and resurrection of Jesus. But somehow the oft-repeated tale of Christ’s passion can become too familiar, too formalized, for us to experience its incredible immediacy. The meditations in Reliving the Passion, which received a Gold Medallion Award in 1993, follow the story as given in the gospel of Mark—from the moment when the chief priests plot to kill Jesus to the Resurrection. But these readings are more than a recounting of events; they are an imaginary reenactment, leading the reader to re-experience the Passion or perhaps see it fully for the very first time. As only a great storyteller can, Walter Wangerin enables the reader to see the story from the inside, to discover the strangeness and wonder of the events as they unfold. It’s like being there. In vivid images and richly personal detail, Wangerin helps us recognize our own faces on the streets of Jerusalem; breathe the dark and heavy air of Golgotha; and experience, as Mary and Peter did, the bewilderment, the challenge, and the ultimate revelation of knowing the man called Jesus. “The story gets personal for every reader,” writes Wangerin, “for this is indeed our story, the story whereby we personally have been saved from such a death as Jesus died. “No, there is not another tale in the world more meaningful than this—here is where we all take our stands against sin and death and Satan, upon this historical, historic event. I consider it a holy privilege to participate in it retelling. “Read this book slowly. Read it with a seeing faith. Walk the way with Jesus. We, his followers of later centuries, do follow even now. Read, walk, come, sigh, live. Live! Rise again!”

Given our history, this father and this son might well have gone completely separate ways ... And only in becoming a father did I even begin to understand what it meant, what it was, what would be required of me, and who I was/am within that identity, father. Pastor, author, and father Walter Wangerin Jr., along with his adopted son, Matthew, tell the story of their own lifelong relationship and how they survived times when brokenness and bitterness seemed inevitable. It is the story of Matthew''s desperate search for independence and his father''s own search for authentic fatherhood. This is a book of deep emotion and serious meditation about broken lives and redemption. Father and Son weaves together each writer''s personal story and shows: how earthly fathers and sons are shaped by a Creator''s relationship with his creation how within the human experience of parenting we discover insights into the spiritual nature of home, family, and eternity itself As in As for Me and My House, Mourning into Dancing, and Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? Walter Wangerin Jr. develops a series of insights about family, which readers can apply to their own lives. And these insights gain added resonance from the words of Matthew Aaron Wangerin. Together, father and son have written a book that must be experienced as well as read. It''s a book parents will want to bring their lives to, not just their attention. Father and Son is the story of all of us, for we are all wayward children in need of a loving, patient father.

A parent eases a child''s nighttime concerns by promising a series of loving and heroic deeds and speaking of a kind, wise, loving God. Full color.

The granddaughter of a German-American farmer tells of her experiences with him on the farm and the many things he taught her about life.

Various prayers which emphasize the experiences and emotions of children.

When she misses the Christmas pageant because she is sick, a young African American girl is visited by an angel who takes her back to witness the first Christmas.

In this spellbinding novel, Paul, an apostle to the early Christian church, is portrayed as a compelling character who could be at once charming, obstinate, rash, proud and charismatic. His story is told through those who loved him most, and those who were most challenged by him. This rich medley of voices vibrantly recreates both the complex character whose passionate commitment to spreading the gospel of Christ inspired devotion and exasperation in equal measure, and the first-century world upon which he made such a powerful impact. Walter Wangerin, bestselling author of The Book of God, writes not only with a profound and personal understanding of the message Paul was proclaiming, but also with a deep knowledge of the Roman world in all its richness and complexity.

This haunting medieval novella, set somewhat ambiguously in the period of the Crusades, tells the story of Julian the Hospitaller, drawn from ancient legend. Revered for his famous devotion to the Church, Julian must hide a violent nature that leads him to love the hunt and the kill above all. Saint Julian follows the inexorable descent of this golden-boy hero from favored son of nobility to the depths of beggardom, and eventual sainthood.

First-rate storytelling and spiritual reflections in this updated edition of a Christian classic These beautifully told stories, culled from the author''s childhood, evoke the experience of growing up in America and living out a spiritual quest.