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to read table of contents. to buy George
Herbert's "Holy Patterns": Reforming Individuals in Community |
George Herbert's "Holy Patterns": Reforming Individuals in Community explores Herbert's understanding of full individuality in community. Living communities depend upon imagined histories and futures. Like his mother Lady Magdalen Danvers and her friend John Donne, and unlike many of his Anglican contemporaries, Herbert imagined significant continuity with the pre-Reformation past; that imagination was tied to a prophetic imagining of the future triumph of Christ's universal and apostolic church. Herbert's project was to "purify" a unified national church from within, this purification taking place through lives lived communally in self-scrutiny, self-regulation, and loving service. Such "holy patterns" of living were imagined as leading to the purification of the whole church, the spread of the Gospel, human advancement through what we would call scientific knowledge, and international peace.
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Mississippi Sudan
For an on-line copy of The Long Journey: Sudanese
Refugees in Mississippi Tell their Stories:
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Miller is able to give voice to the
suffering of the Sudanese because of his wisdom, his spiritual kinship with
particular individuals, and his deep capacity to sing both the sorrows and
resilient triumphs of the world. - Susan Ford Wiltshire, Windmills and
Bridges: Poems Near and Far
In this collection of poems Miller
speaks with keen insight, challenge and candor of the unique experiences of
these refugees cut off from ther native culture and struggling to find their way
in a new land. - The Rt. Rev. Duncan Gray, III, Episcopal Diocese of
Mississippi
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to read sample poem. to buy Rib
Cage |
Publishers Weekly, November 19, 2001
In Rib Cage, Greg
Miller (Iron Wheel), chair of the English department at Millsaps
College, paints a tender but incisive social portrait of Southern culture,
individuals, relationships, families. "Whenever they lay down, he couldn't sleep
/ without his back turned toward her, so she left," he writes, recounting
complicated events without judgment or fuss. In the soft cadences and
syntactical and adjectival particularities of Southern speech, Miller's stories
are quiet, understated and revealing of human complexity.
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to read sample poem. to buy Iron
Wheel |
David
Orr
Poetry, July 1999
Miller demonstrates that what Eliot said about reading a poem may be equally true of writing them: the best thing "is to be very, very intelligent" and intelligence is not the same as erudition. Whether the world is made, found, or named, Miller offers an engaging portrait of things as they are.
