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    Between Mirage and Miracle: Selected Poems for Seasons, Festivals, and the Occasional Revelation
    Between Mirage and Miracle: Selected Poems for Seasons, Festivals, and the Occasional Revelation
    Between Mirage and Miracle: Selected Poems for Seasons, Festivals, and the Occasional Revelation
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    Between Mirage and Miracle: Selected Poems for Seasons, Festivals, and the Occasional Revelation

    By J. Barrie Shepherd

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    In this volume, Shepherd selects from these, and from other unpublished works, to shape a series of poems that seek to portray and even illuminate, to some extent, the life of the spirit. They begin by tracing the progress of a typical year--January through December--but also by noting, and celebrating at times, the high points of "The Christian Year": Lent-Easter, Pentecost, Thanksgiving, Advent-Christmas, and Epiphany. Other, more generally themed, less calendar-related poems follow, including poems that reflect on the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center--an attack in which several of the author's parishioners and friends were killed.

    This is a book to be dipped into, rather than read right through. It should provide fertile soil for the practice of daily prayer and meditation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWipf and Stock
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9781621893998
    Between Mirage and Miracle: Selected Poems for Seasons, Festivals, and the Occasional Revelation
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    J. Barrie Shepherd

    The Reverend Dr. J. Barrie Shepherd, a native of Great Britain, retired as Minister Emeritus from The First Presbyterian Church in New York City. Prior to that he was senior minister of Swarthmore Presbyterian Church for sixteen years and served in college and university chaplaincy and teaching. He has preached and lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke and other universities and colleges and many of the major seminaries, as well as in distinguished pulpits across the USA and in the UK, Europe and Africa. The author is an avid saltwater fisherman and sailor. He enjoys swimming, walking, gardening and playing the euphonium in community bands. He and his wife Mhairi have four daughters and three granddaughters.

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