This collection offers selected sermons of Jim Callahan, Rector of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church from 1982-2000, Irish poet priest, teller of tales, and advocate for ministry of Outreach. These very literary sermons include words from theological figures like Diedrich Bonhoeffer and Frederich Buechner, and from Shakespeare, Dickens, Frost, Cormac McCarthy, to name a few, and, perhaps most powerfully, characters Jim loved to talk about, his notorious Uncle Henry and Aunt Sue Belle and Mama Jesse and myriad others whom he brings to life in the course of celebrating our human experience of the...

Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 explores how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present.