A Room Called Remember: Uncollected PiecesA Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner's finest writings on faith, love, and the power of words in the form of essays, addresses, and sermons. Here Buechner explores autobiography as theology, offers exhilarating reflections on biblical passages, and leads us into the "room called Remember," that "still room within us all where the past lives on as part of the present,...where with patience, with clarity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived." |
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User Review - wordsampersand - LibraryThing3.75 stars. This is a collection of essays, sermons, addresses, and speeches that Buechner had sitting around, all unpublished. I like Buechner a lot, so (for the most part) I liked the collection ... Read full review
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User Review - jd234512 - LibraryThingThis book has some great stuff in it, but in all it seems kind of disjointed. This is kind of the point, however, in that it is a collection of all that was never released of his. Overall, this is still Buechner, so it's great, but definitely not one to start on. Read full review
Contents
A Room Called Remember | 5 |
Faith | 13 |
Hope | 24 |
Love | 36 |
The Two Stories | 46 |
Emmanuel | 57 |
The First Miracle | 66 |
The Things That Make for Peace | 70 |
Deliverance | 104 |
Dereliction | 115 |
Delay | 127 |
The Road Goes On | 138 |
Summons to Pilgrimage | 151 |
God and Old Scratch | 158 |
The Speaking and Writing of Words | 164 |
Alls LostAlls Found | 182 |