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As a Christian, what do you do when the euphoria of your conversion experience wears off? How do you respond to God when you realize that faith in Jesus does not automatically solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions about life? What can you do when your life gets back into the same old rut? This book is my attempt to answer briefly one question: "What does a Christian need to know to adequately begin his spiritual pilgrimag...

Alone. Helpless. Trapped. That is how I feel when waves of depression and negative feelings come over me. There seems to be no answers, and in the most intense moments, no one available to help. Do you ever feel like you are drowning in life, but that you cannot let the people in your life know about it? That is me when I feel trapped in my own mind. It is as if no one could understand my thoughts, and as if telling them would just complicate ...

How does one say just the right thing at just the right moment? That, indeed, is the special gift of Dan Scott. Reverend Scott, Baylor School's Chaplain since 2003, has blessed our school family with special prayers in times of triumph and challenge, joy and sorrow. Somehow, through God's grace, Dan seems to find just the right words to comfort us and to lift us. Though he is a Baptist preacher, Dan's prayers reach across denominations and fai...

In sending these selections of Scripture with their brief reflections, I was informed by the practice in many religions of reading sacred texts to a person on their deathbed as a guide through the process of dying. What mattered most to me was to offer something genuinely needed and desired. I knew that my sister built her life on Scripture and had asked me to read Scripture to her, and I knew that she had asked me about my own near-death expe...

The idea for the book, IT GETS FOGGY AT MOSSY CHEEK, was born in 1969. In order to complete my Doctorate at the University of Georgia I had to write a dissertation. I did not want to select a subject that would not have any meaning or future value. So many people write on something like "How Many Push-Ups a Rat Can Do" and it is placed in File 13 never to be heard from again. I love history. The events that have taken place in the past help mo...

The purpose of this book, Assaulted by Grief: Finding God in the Broken Places, is simply to touch the messy world of grief. Grief is synonymous with profound loss and executes its reign in different corners of life's journey in different forms. The focus of the book is to stand in the valley of the shadow of death. Death is the incontrovertible fact and universal reality of life. To live is to die and to die is to leave those behind with a "s...

Oliver: A Tale of a Tail was originally written and illustrated when Jenny Finnell was sixteen years old. Parson's Porch Books is pleased to release a newly reset edition of this marvelous children's book about a young pig who gets into trouble but is rescued by his friend, a mouse that lives over his stall. Children will warm to this lovely story about Oliver and his tail and will learn about true friendship.

A little boy asked his mother one day if she knew what Goliath said when David hit him in the head with a stone. "Well, I didn't know Goliath said anything, " she replied. The little boy nodded his head knowingly and said, "Yep, he sure did. When David put that stone in his slingshot and swung it around and around, and let it go and hit ol' Goliath right between the eyes, Goliath said, 'Hmmmmm, nothing like that has ever entered my mind before...

Webber Institute Books, in association with Parson's Porch Books, is proud to release its inaugural volume, The Storytelling Church: Adventures in Reclaiming the Role of Story in Worship, by Jeff Barker. Barker, who is professor of theatre and speech at Northwestern College in Iowa and in the doctoral program at the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies has written superb, worthwhile, and transformative stories that will inspire, prov...

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Then said Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall thou serve. Matthew 4:10 Employees at WalMart wear a vest with the question "How may I serve you?" on the back. As far as I know, they have worn them for years and many people probably don't pay any attention to the question. The very nature of the question implies a willingness to help whenever and wherever needed. I sus...

Walking helps! Walking is therapy for me. When I walk I think, I sort, I get in touch with my anger, I relive my pain as a way of coming to terms with it, I process. I do some of my best thinking when I walk. Often something that I am dealing with is much clearer when I return from a walk. Much of this book was born as I walked in our neighborhood. I relived the pain. I relived the compassion. I struggled with loss. I tried to sort out how I...

This book contains many reflections from my experiences with various congregations with whom I have worked over the past fifty-plus years. As the years have increased so has my appreciation for the significant contribution all of these congregations have made to my life and my ministry. I list all of them with gratitude and appreciation - perhaps especially for the difficult times that I often found a way to make more difficult. These times us...

Surviving the Storms of Life is a timely book, and it offers timely help to any who are experiencing such storms. In the past few years we have witnessed hurricane Katrina, which laid waste the gulf coast of America and came near to wiping out New Orleans, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean basin that claimed nearly 200, 000 lives, the earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan that threatened to and did partly melt down a nuclear reactor, a l...

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The story begins several years ago following my first retirement. Like Ellie Mae of the Beverly Hillbillies, I enjoy the creatures that live around me. (Except for the thousands of blackbirds who roost in the trees in my front yard.) I enjoy watching the turtles make their way slowly across the yard. Sometimes I walk out to inspect them more closely. I enjoy the Blue Herons who stand guard on the banks of the lake. Some of them have seen me so...

In the first year following college I wrecked a car twice, blew out the engine of the same car, began and quit several jobs, lost too much weight, gained too much weight, was cheated on by my girlfriend and didn't end the relationship until she dropped me, was totally pitiful, found my calling, fell in love with one of my former girlfriend's best friends (whom I married), and adopted a dog, among other things. It was quite a year and this list...

Advent is a time in which we strive to be awake. We train our eyes for the slightest glimmer of Christ's coming. We look for the emergence of a star on the horizon and the birth of something we cannot fully describe in our hearts and in the world. We live in a time of hope and anticipation: what we hope for is not yet here and we know that there is no guarantee that it will come. Still we dream of a holy adventure, and the possibility that a h...

Holy Women Icons wouldn't be a book without first being a series of paintings. So, I am grateful for those galleries that have hosted them: Shell Ridge, Karma, Blue Lotus/Woven Soul, and Barnhills. I'm also tremendously grateful for all the people who have supported my art by purchasing or commissioning an original icon or buying a print. It means a great deal for someone to find enough value in my paintings to actually hang them in their home...

FROM JOE MCKEEVER.... When I was five years old, my mother sat me down at the kitchen table with my little sister Carolyn, gave us pencil and paper, and said, "Now draw!" She was not attempting to teach us anything, but merely trying to get us out of the way while she did her housework. And, that's how I discovered that I love to draw. The next year, when I started to the first grade at Nauvoo (AL) Elementary School, the other children would g...