A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

Frederick Buechner

Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Religion - 208 pages

A 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 - LibraryThing

3.75 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 This is a collection of essays, sermons, addresses, and speeches that Buechner had sitting around, all unpublished.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 ...

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User Review  - jd234512 - LibraryThing

This 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.

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
• Air for Two Voices: 80
• A Little While: 91
• 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

About the author

Frederick Buechner, author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, is an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent work is Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
• Author: Frederick Buechner
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2009
• ISBN: 0061873500, 9780061873508
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Religion / General