"For a Limited TIme Only, "Ronald Wallace's eighth collection of poems, is perhaps his darkest and most meditative to date, focusing his experiences with illness, old age, and mortality; his father-in-law's death after a long bout with Alzheimer's; his step-father's death after a painful struggle with esophageal cancer, his own bout with prostate cancer. These personal experiences form the core of the first three sections of the book, but are mediated by theological and philosophical speculations that find further voice in the character of a Mr. Grim, whose angry, self-pitying, gruff, comic,...
"For a Limited TIme Only, "Ronald Wallace's eighth collection of poems, is perhaps his darkest and most meditative to date, focusing his experiences w...
Description: This is a series of expositions of most of the passages in the first and second books of Kings which give the history of the two prophets, Elijah and Elisha. Some of these stories are among the most vivid and memorable in the Old Testament, and have never failed to prove themselves relevant and challenging in the preaching of the church. Others of them present what to many are the most difficult moral and intellectual problems both for the preacher and the listener. About the Contributor(s): Ronald S. Wallace (1911-2006) was for nearly thirty years a parish minister in several...
Description: This is a series of expositions of most of the passages in the first and second books of Kings which give the history of the two prophets...
In For Dear Life, with accessibility, wit, and humor, Ronald Wallace evokes a wide variety of subjects that range from the traditional themes of lyric poetry--love, death, sex, the natural world, marriage, birth, childhood, music, religion, art--to the most unexpected and quirky narratives--an ode to excrement, a catalogue of comic one-liners, a celebratory testimonial to his teeth.
In For Dear Life, with accessibility, wit, and humor, Ronald Wallace evokes a wide variety of subjects that range from the traditional themes o...