On "My West Virginia" - "What a wondrous anthem this is I don't think I've ever heard you champion your home so fully and lyrically. I've heard you describe much of its landscape beautifully before this - but this is another order of praise. It's just wonderful, Bill. Be sure to make it the centerpiece of your next collection. (It comes close to the sort of complete rapture I bring to what I can express about my own beloved New York." Thanks " - Guy Kettelhack
On "My West Virginia" - "What a wondrous anthem this is I don't think I've ever heard you champion your home so fully and lyrically. I've heard you d...
These "Studies" comprise the bulk of my more or less academic-styled searching toward understanding of aspects of my ministry, particularly with regard to ministry itself, to the life of prayer, to ecumenism and various other aspects of ministry as I encountered them along the way.
These "Studies" comprise the bulk of my more or less academic-styled searching toward understanding of aspects of my ministry, particularly with regar...
Those elements of life that encounter us in people and events, in memories and nature, in the life of conviction and hope form the spawn of these poems. They mean to lead us again into life's happenstance afresh and with nuanced insight.
Those elements of life that encounter us in people and events, in memories and nature, in the life of conviction and hope form the spawn of these poem...
These reflective prayers are the result of permitting a gentle reading of the lectionary texts for a given service to resonate in me and emerge as a searching engagement of the Word with my spirit in a mood of settled joy.
These reflective prayers are the result of permitting a gentle reading of the lectionary texts for a given service to resonate in me and emerge as a s...
These pastoral notes concern an effort to provide a pastoral input to my congregations in a way that is not sermonic in nature. The ?Letters to Anna? deal with reflections on spiritual matters addressed to a young girl asking about matters of faith. The ?Occasional Pamphlets? represent various other writings of a largely pastoral nature.
These pastoral notes concern an effort to provide a pastoral input to my congregations in a way that is not sermonic in nature. The ?Letters to Anna? ...
The Psalm Meditations take up my own translation of the selected psalms based on the Hebrew Masoretic Text and a meditative reflection addressed, for the most part, to God. All but the last of these are in prose; the reflection on Psalm 66 has its own pattern. The Regula Vitae (Rule of Life) arose in response to a particular reading and served to reflect over aspects and qualities of my life as a pastor.
The Psalm Meditations take up my own translation of the selected psalms based on the Hebrew Masoretic Text and a meditative reflection addressed, f...
These meditations take a verse from one of the lectionary texts not chosen for preaching for a given service and offer a devotional reflection on the verse, often using the context of the entire pericope as described in the lectionary. I try to make them worth the while of my readers, finding a fairly broad readership among the congregations I served through the years.
These meditations take a verse from one of the lectionary texts not chosen for preaching for a given service and offer a devotional reflection on t...
I n the Christian church Disciples of Christ, a prominent part of the leadership of the local congregation consists of elders. These are lay people, for the most part. The first and major part of this book consists of studies prepared for the elders at First Christian Church in New Martinsville, West Virginia. There are also some other studies on the same model for other purposes and a few samples of materials I had earlier prepared to assist elders in their normal worship responsibilities.
I have served as a minister in the Christian church Disciples of Christ from the time I finished...
I n the Christian church Disciples of Christ, a prominent part of the leadership of the local congregation consists of elders. These are lay people...
Life is encountered in events and images, in what is overheard and what is noticed in some little corner of awareness. Some of these flickers in life become as muses, tickling the imagination and inviting a wisp of verse. These become the familiarity that entertains the poet's mind and become, in turn, the poets for another mind.
Life is encountered in events and images, in what is overheard and what is noticed in some little corner of awareness. Some of these flickers in life ...
