Tag: Preaching
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Keeping Track (or Not)
I rarely pay attention to how my books are selling; popularity was never the point of producing them (although both my publisher and I are pleased when they do well). That said, this past September Sowing the Seed of Truth: Orthodox Quaker Sermons of Murray Shipley (1873-1876) came out in hardcover, so I sent an…
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Review of Sowing the Seed of Truth
A present-day reader who imagines themself in the room where these messages were delivered may catch an echo of Shipley’s living voice and the concern under which a particular message came forth, spoken to particular people in a particular time and place. Throughout, one hears Shipley’s love for those he is speaking to and his…
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A Tale of Two Bibliographies
Unlike Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally, when I pick up a new book, I do not read the last page first so that I’ll know how the story ends in case I die before I can finish reading it. For non-fiction, however, I do sometimes start by taking a peek at the bibliography.…
Sabrina Darnowsky 