Such a God: Old Stories, New Voices

By Janet G. Tharpe

Dr. Tharpe brings these ancient stories into the present moment for me. I found them powerful as well as provocative. The title seems to give a much broader lens to the vision of Source including all sentient beings which touches my soul deeply.
-Wendy Jo Johnson, LPCC
Therapist/Artist/Writer/Seeker

Tharpe offers a rehearing and resetting of biblical stories that are praise and provocation, full of humor, questions, anguish and faith. These prose poems will open you up. I commend them most highly to you.
-H. Stephen Shoemaker,
retired pastor, author of several books, including,
Godstories: New Narratives from Sacred Texts

Tharpes voice emerges and resonates with a sense of being present in each storys moment. This is no small thing. It is incarnational activity.
-Lou Ann Iler,
professional artist/teacher

I have never been interested in poems; however, after reading a few of these, I was enthralled.
-Adele Kleinhenz,
Volunteer Liaison for
Hosparus Grief Counseling Center

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504929639

Janet G. Tharpe

Tharpe’s first book combines her seasoned experience as a writer, unleashing her imagination and her love of and familiarity with Bible stories that she first heard as a child. She began writing poems and stories in the second grade, and she soon found that keeping journals and writing to pen pals were good writing practices. In 1973 when she graduated from Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee, she won second place in a national short story writing contest and was published for the first time. While in college at Gardner Webb University in North Carolina, her poetry was published in a variety of magazines and journals. In 1979 she graduated from the former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and later earned a DMin degree in 1991 from the Presbyterian Seminary. She has a private practice as a licensed marriage and family therapist and is currently residing in Louisville with sweet Maggie “Mayhem” Mae.

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