Psalm 23 (in other words)

By Penn Ketchum

Ironman athlete and movie-multiplex owner Penn Ketchum rediscovered Psalm 23 one day on mile fifteen of an eighteen-mile run. "I'd sung all the verses of all the Bob Dylan songs I knew, when my mind jumped to Psalm 23 from my Episcopal upbringing. Except this time I considered each phrase—and tried out some different words here and there that belong to the world I live in. This old beloved Psalm moved into my day-to-day life where I've felt some inadequacy, insecurity, fear." In this book is the iconic Psalm, along with Ketchum's "other words," and his invitation for you to add your own. "This book is for the faithful but, more so, for anyone who is not connected—normal schmoes like me, going through life looking for clues." The drawings are Ketchum's—simple figures, sometimes conflicted, who are often missing parts. "Readers will see, through the words and artwork," Ketchum says, "that heavy ain't always heavy."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Walnut Street Books
• Release date: Sep 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781947597303

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Page design by Cliff Snyder

Cover design by Mike Bond and Cliff Snyder

Photo credits—Page 5—Mark Pontz; Page 7—Jason Hugg; page 44—Aimee Ketchum.

The text of Psalm 23 is inspired by the King James Version of the Bible.

Psalm 23 (in other words)

Copyright © 2019 by Penn Ketchum

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Psalm 23 (in other words) is published by Walnut Street Books, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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