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  • A Gazan Holocaust
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    One generally speaks of the Holocaust as referring to the Nazis’ “final solution” during World War II to eliminate the Jewish population of Europe. However, the word generally is defined in dictionaries today as follows: “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale.” The poems in this book are inspired by the State of Israel’s goal and determina...
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    9,60 €

  • Nature’s Moods
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    When considering the radical change in weather from sunny beaches with pleasant ocean waves to violent hurricanes or cyclones, one senses that even nature seems to have moods, from pervading atmospheres of utter delight to anger and irritableness. One speaks of “angry winds” or “soothing summer breezes” as though somehow moods are reflected by nature. So...
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    9,33 €

  • Charles Wesley, A Prisoner of Hope
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    Although Charles Wesley is known primarily as a distinguished English-language hymn writer and joint leader with his brother John of the Methodist reform movement within the Church of England, this book examines how the struggles and difficulties he faced as a child and as an adult shaped the person he was ever becoming. It explores how he was shaped by the love and conflicts o...
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    26,77 €

  • Poems on Civility
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    Although civility may sometimes have been viewed as formal politeness and courtesy in one’s speech and behavior, its meaning has become more complex in contemporary society. It certainly still has to do with how we speak and act, but these are overlaid with political and partisan meanings, and a variety of media and social media options. Poems on Civility says nothing new about...
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    13,14 €

  • Creating Christmas Atmosphere
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    Although the biblical Christmas story’s content remains the same, how it is understood from year to year depends on many things: attitudes, cultural context, geography, religion, language, music, etc. All of these influence the atmosphere created and experienced in and around the Christmas story and Christmastime. Perhaps one’s celebration is satisfied by a secular atmosphere c...
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    9,42 €

  • Magical Nature
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    The poems of Magical Nature suggest that the natural world possesses a magical quality, to which humans respond with awe and wonder. This happens because creatures, flowers, seasons, and other aspects of nature through appearance, activity, unknown aspects or characteristics, and the interaction of natural phenomena often create a magical experience. For example, one may see in...
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    9,42 €

  • Humility in the Writings of Charles Wesley and the Early Church Fathers/Mothers
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    Humility is a central focus of the early church fathers/mothers. Similarly, it is at the heart of Charles Wesley’s thought expressed in his poetry, sermons, and journal. For Wesley, humility plays an active role in the process of salvation. ''It can but lead to faith,'' he says. For the fathers/mothers of the early church, salvation void of humility is unthinkable. For Wesley t...
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    16,13 €

  • The Gaza Prison
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    For decades Israel’s forces have occupied parts of the West Bank and Gaza forcing Palestinians there to live under dire conditions: imprisonment without charges or trials, confiscation of homes, properties, and farm land, even destruction of schools and hospitals. The action of Hamas on October 7, 2023, which resulted in 1,400 Israeli deaths and 250 taken as hostages, precipita...
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    9,68 €

  • What Do You Have To Say? Poetry’s Eternal Question
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    A poem shapes words in such a way that they say something about something. Poets put their words together in many different ways from culture to culture. The choice of words, rhyme, free verse, etc., and many other aspects of composition comprise the poet’s art of rhetoric. It is not the purpose here to pursue an extensive discussion of the characteristics of poetic rhetoric, b...
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    10,57 €

  • Christmas Contrasts
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    Is it possible to understand Christmas more meaningfully through the contrasts that it creates and we create? While some contrasts of Christmas are troubling, others are comforting. The poems in this book juxtapose some of these. There are contrasts of the past and present, contrasts within past and present time, contrasts of wealth and poverty, etc. They evoke vivid images, ma...
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    7,24 €

  • Ancient Wisdom in Modern Verse
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    The wisdom of ancient sages, many of whom predate the Christian era, particularly historians, philosophers, playwrights, and poets of Greece, but also many of the wise early church fathers and mothers continue to be a source of insight into life well lived. This book of poems gleans some of their gems of wisdom and views them through the lens of contemporary language and experi...
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    10,82 €

  • Divine Mysteries and the Christian Year
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    This book includes brief explanations of the primary emphases of the Christian or liturgical year as observed in Christian churches in the East and West. Following brief descriptions of the primary periods of the Christian year, poems highlight the diverse theological emphases. They punctuate the scriptural background and theological ideas with appropriate prayers. Though there...
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    13,26 €

  • Nature’s Sorrows and Nature’s Joys
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    What if many desirable things in nature were no longer there?--clean air, freshly grown vegetables, wildflowers, a waterfall, a green forest, spring rains, colors of flowers, a willow tree, fresh trout from a stream, autumn leaves, sunrise, sunset, mineral-rich farmland, etc. What if in a few years global warming and its devasting effects so damaged the earth, its atmosphere, a...
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    10,85 €

  • Becoming Just
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    The poems in this collection ask--How can we become just people? What is human justice? Is there a justice that is equal and/or appropriate for all human beings? How can an individual in action, speech, and behavior be just? How does one think of oneself as just in interaction with others? These poems also address prevalent injustices to children and of society’s frequent denia...
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    15,10 €

  • What Do You Think About?
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    The poems in this volume seek to stimulate us to think about the things that we tend to push aside, questions and issues that it is easier to avoid. They also encourage us to think about those things, events, places, etc. that are sources of joy, achievement, and sorrow. Generally, they do not address the philosophy of thought but rather the results of our thinking and how we e...
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    13,27 €

  • Nature’s Final Curtain Call?
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    In the performing arts, curtain calls transpire when performers return to the stage to be recognized by the audience for their performance. It may seem somewhat strange to speak of ''nature’s curtain call,'' but I am thinking of those amazing moments when with the passing of seasons Mother Nature presents a stunning performance, so to speak, for which we, the observers, are ama...
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    11,73 €

  • Wrestling the Angel
    S T Jr. Kimbrough
    In his hymns and poems, Charles Wesley takes all who sing and read on an inward journey, asking soul-searching questions which are as up-to-date now as they were in the eighteenth century. They reflect his quest for identity as a human being, clergyman, and follower of Jesus Christ. His questions about God, Jesus, faith, others, self, the world, and daily living are still today...
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    30,11 €

  • The Struggle to Believe
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    Many people of faith struggle with aspects of their beliefs. These poems do not seek to propose resolutions to all faith struggles. They do seek to help one toward self-examination, to be honest about these struggles, and to know that to confront them does not mean loss of faith. The study of the biblical languages of Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic makes clear that there are not al...
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    9,82 €

  • Who Cares About the Middle East?
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    The Israeli occupation of Palestinian land has lasted for decades in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The long-lasting nature of the occupation and its accompanying injustices and often violence, along with the expanding of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, have made it an ongoing challenge of diplomacy and humiliation for the Palestinians. The poems in this boo...
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    12,27 €

  • We Need Mountains
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    About three-fourths of the poems in this book are concerned with the world around us, which we need to protect and preserve. They are the necessary prelude to the importance of creation care, which is addressed specifically in the concluding poems. The mountains and valleys are a source of sustenance for human beings, as well as for their animal population.The season cycles in ...
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    10,88 €

  • Living with Coronavirus
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    This volume of poems addresses the human effects of the coronavirus pandemic including: prolonged illnesses, death, disruption of society, families, the work force, and economy. There are the accompanying emotional effects of grief, distressed orphaned children, over-stressed hospital staffs, anxieties over the shortage of health workers, medication, and other medical needs. Th...
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    9,58 €

  • Charles Wesley in America
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    This is the first comprehensive treatment of Charles Wesley’s sojourn in the American colonies from March to October 1736. He went to the Colony of Georgia as a missionary of the Church of England, as Colonel Oglethorpe’s personal aid, and secretary of Indian Affairs.His stay in Georgia was filled with discord and conflict. This volume provides the first explanation of why Wesl...
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    21,23 €

  • Rethinking Christmas
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    In the poems that appear here imagination plays a significant role. We do not know exactly what people expect or anticipate at Advent, but we know it can be radically different, depending on one’s situation in life: the poor, the homeless, those enveloped in war, the wealthy, the desperately ill or injured. What one awaits does not change the nature of Christ’s coming, but it g...
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    10,19 €

  • Snowbound
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    These poems resulted from the author’s experience in Lithuania during the winter of 2018, when it snowed on consecutive days for two months. Through the large windows of his hotel room he watched the almost non-stop falling snow. His reflections turned to poetry writing: the changing moods of ''Shovel Snow and Sing'' followed by ''The snow today makes a grim face'' from ''boot ...
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    10,07 €

  • May She Have a Word with You?
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    Perhaps Charles Wesley’s two volumes of Funeral Hymns (1746 and 1759), plus a few poems left in manuscript form, are the least known of his poetical corpus. They are a treasury, however, of his views on the importance of women in eighteenth-century England as examples of how to live the Christian life. Entries in his MS Journal indicate an extremely positive relationship with w...
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    18,76 €

  • A Seagull Lunch and Other Nature Poems
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    Many poems in this book are simple descriptions of the wonders of nature. Some address the tragedy of nature’s suffering caused by human thoughtlessness and negligence. Others are a response to the magical change of seasons, a cycle that transforms the colors of the earth’s foliage, bringing the advent of animals’ change of habitats, along with hurricanes, monsoons, and other s...
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    12,42 €

  • A Pilgrim with a Poet’s Soul
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    George Albert Simons (1874-1952) of New York State was the first and only American missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church appointed as superintendent of the Russia Mission. He arrived in St. Petersburg in 1907 during the reign of the Tsar Nicholas II. He succeeded in registering the first Methodist congregation in St. Petersburg in 1912, based on the registration of the M...
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    19,51 €

  • Of Death and Grief
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S. T. Jr. Kimbrough / STJrKimbrough
    This little book of poems reveals how the author has dealt with the grief that accompanied the death of his wife of fifty-nine years. The poems are a conversation on the journey through the grieving process, which perhaps has no end. Yes, they are permeated with a deep faith that there is more to life than merely living and dying. At the same time, they are honest responses to ...
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    8,55 €

  • Why Should a Child Be Born?
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    The Jewish/Palestinian conflict in the Middle East goes on and on without resolution, and in the course of the tactics of delay thousands of people have suffered and died. Those who have suffered the most have been women and children, and at times entire villages have been destroyed. Adherents of both sides of the conflict cry ''foul'' and accuse their opponents of injustice an...
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    14,23 €

  • Alphabetical Index to the First Lines of All Stanzas of Poetry by John and Charles Wesley
    S T Jr. Kimbrough / S T JrKimbrough
    This is the first-ever index of the first line of every stanza of all the poems and hymns in the publications of John and Charles Wesley, as well as those of other authors included in their publications. Two sources have been used as the basis for the creation of the index: (1) George Osborn, The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, thirteen volumes published between 1868...
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    46,96 €


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