In Putting the Amazing Back in Grace, Ann Weems reflects on the church of her childhood and youth, writing about her personal faith story as it developed amid the influences of family, culture, and religion. She goes on to reflect on the contemporary church--mourning, eloquently, the condition of the church today, charging that it has put process over people, division over unity, and corporate strategizing over conversation and consultation with God.
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Ann Weems is a Presbyterian elder, a lecturer, and a popular poet. She is the author of Family Faith Stories, Reaching for Rainbows, Searching for Shalom, Kneeling in Bethlehem, Kneeling in Jerusalem, Psalms of Lament, and Putting the Amazing Back in Grace, all available from WJK.
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Once again, Ann Weems invites us into the world of faith with her poetic imagery. Putting the Amazing Back in Grace speaks with a deeply intimate knowledge of the present reality in Church life. There is both pain and beauty, struggle and hope in this rather raw book. I've used it already to speak for me in a couple of different venues.
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I have all of Weem's newer books; so wanted to get this one. Was a little disappointed that it wasn't really poetry. However, it is a good book.
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My mother wrote fiction in the breakfast room; my father wrote sermons in the study; Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Harriet, King James Version, Mean Lady, Red Letter Testament, Sunday School, God the Poet, Lynn Bryan, Twenty-third Psalm, Good Friday, Jesus Christ, Kingdom of God, Jerome Rosenfeld New!
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My mother wrote fiction in the breakfast room; my father wrote sermons in the study; Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Harriet, King James Version, Mean Lady, Red Letter Testament, Sunday School, God the Poet, Lynn Bryan, Twenty-third Psalm, Good Friday, Jesus Christ, Kingdom of God, Jerome Rosenfeld New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Reaching for Rainbows: Resources for Creative Worship by Ann Weems in Front Matter
- Family Faith Stories by Ann Weems in Front Matter
- Kneeling in Jerusalem by Ann Weems in Front Matter
- Searching for Shalom: Resources for Creative Worship by Ann Weems in Front Matter
- Psalms of Lament by Ann Weems in Front Matter
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- Faith in Words: A Celebration of Presbyterian Writers by Ann Weems in Front Matter, page 139, and Back Matter
- Searching for Shalom: Resources for Creative Worship by Ann Weems in Front Matter
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