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The Men’s Workshop
$17.00Author of The Men’s Workshop, James Enoch Banks is a remarkable person. He grew up in a depressed neighborhood in Gary, Indiana. Despite the fact that he had a loving family, he ended up in prison like so many other young black males. African American males are incarcerated at more than five times the rate of white males. James has served eighteen years of a 28-year prison sentence for Aggravated Robbery. He is scheduled to be released in June 2021.
Challenged by his nine-year old son, he asked himself how he ended up in prison. Over several years, he taught what he learned to other inmates. He finalized the teaching into a student handbook named The Men’s Workshop. The course is a how to to redemption and restoration.
The course was taught for the first time using The Men’s Workshop material in the common rooms of eight different dorms in Torres Prison January through March 2020. The results are extraordinary.
Men told their personal stories for the first time. Men who had walked down the same paths listened. They shared stories about who they had injured and how their families had suffered in their absences. They shared their pain. They began to forgive themselves and to experience healing.
A generous couple donated the money to have The Men’s Workshop published. Our plans are to work with prison authorities so that the course can be offered in prisons throughout America. It is a big dream. Someday the wisdom in this book will empower former inmates to be restored to good and full lives, empowered to help vulnerable youth avoid the destructive paths the former inmates took.
Haunting the Graveyard
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Inconspicuously tucked away north of Loop 410 and in the shadow of Wurzbach Parkway in San Antonio, the Coker Cemetery contains the graves of more than 600 people. Several Texas Ranger and Texas Historical Markers serve as obvious signs this turf is fertile with stories. Beginning with the arrival of Americans on the eve of the Texas Revolution, Haunting the Graveyard: Unearthing the Story of the Coker Settlement offers a regional perspective of a century of Texas history.
While a schoolhouse and Methodist church served as anchors for the Coker Settlement, men who went off to fight in bloody battles of the Civil War, spent months pursuing Indians and herded cattle and horses northward, found settling back into everyday farm chores difficult. Struggling to survive, families battled rattlesnakes, endured extended droughts and suffered through the Great Depression.
Many overcame these obstacles, only to find their rural lifestyle vanquished by San Antonio itself. As the city grew, increased demands for housing convinced some to sell. Roads to reach new homes chopped up dairy farms with wider and wider ribbons of asphalt, and airport runways buried fields.
The headstones in Coker Cemetery are almost the only evidence of the former farming community, but the tales of its residents are rich. Expect to encounter some heart-breaking tragedies, a bit of mayhem and even an unsolved murder as their lives unfold on these pages.
Did You Sing Your Song?
$17.95A lifetime of poetry about the land, memories of West Texas, family, and sacredness of life.
When she was a little girl, Mary Earle’s maternal grandmother taught her to listen to the garden in her yard, the creek on the Texas hill country land, the wind in the trees and the stars. Her mother, Mary Colbert, started reading to her as soon as she could sit up, and her mother loved to read poetry out loud. The poems in this book are an offering that comes from years of listening to what the Irish call “the music of what happens.” Mary says, “My hope is that the poems will invite the reader to listen along with me to that music.”
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Advance praise for Did You Sing Your Song? by Mary Earle
“With bold serenity and unapologetic sass, Mary C. Earle blesses us with the music of her word-gifts. She simply takes us by the hand and leads us from ordinary to extraordinary, offering new sight, new light, new understanding.”
Olga Samples-Davis, poet and author of Things My Mama Told Me: The Wisdom That Shapes Our Lives
“Mary’s poems are full of images of inhabiting spaces, of allowing the land to hold her and reclaim her, bone meeting bone, and inviting the reader to do the same. There are songs here too, the music of language relishing the world’s gifts. These are the poems of someone who is asking important questions about what it means to know how precious our limited days here are and offering the wisdom she discovers so generously to others.”
Christine Valters-Paintner, PhD, author of Dreaming of Stones: Poems
Adam Names the Animals
$17.95Adam Names the Animals
The beautiful new children’s book by Beth Wyndham and illustrated by her sister Mary Kelly is available to ship today.
A children’s book about Adam’s romp with his new friends in paradise, as he goes about following God’s instructions to name the animals.
Delightful illustrations will capture children’s imaginations.
What’s one of the first things you do when you meet a new friend? Ask their name, of course! God gave Adam animal friends but Adam didn’t know what to call them because they didn’t yet have names. Adam was so lucky he got to be the first one to name all the animals – wouldn’t that be a great job! We don’t know exactly how Adam named them but it is fun to wonder. An I bet he played with them too, don’t you? What features in God’s creatures gave him clues for their names? What would you name them if God asked you?
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About the author:
Beth Wyndham is an Episcopal priest in San Antonio, Texas. She has spent most of her life working with children and their families. Before turning to ministry, Beth coached figure skating in Dallas, Texas. From there she became a youth minister before being ordained. She served as a school chaplain in Dallas and Associate Rector at St. Anne’s Episcopal in Desoto, Texas.
Beth served for six years at St. Tomas Episcopal Church and School in San Antonio. She is now a church planter for the Diocese of West Texas where she enjoys time with her husband, two sons, two dogs and two cats. This is her first children’s book. She is so thankful for all the curious kids she has encountered that love asking questions about God!
About the illustrator:
Mary Kelly lived in at least six states and three foreign countries growing up as a result of her father’s career in the Air Force. Mary earned her BA in Fine Arts at Brooklyn College, City University of NY. She lived in Brooklyn and Queens for almost 28 years before moving to Santa Barbara where her husband, Sean, grew up and where they still reside. She has two sons. Mary is a member of the Santa Barbara and Goleta Valley Art Associations.
A New Ancient Harmony
$17.95** A New Ancient Harmony was previously published as A New Harmony.
John Philip Newell includes a new preface introducing the reprinting of A New Harmony, retitled as A New Ancient Harmony to better reflect the nature of the book.
In a world that seems increasingly fragmented, John Philip Newell calls us to a vision of life’s essential oneness. He invites us to be part of a new harmony. In his previous book, Christ of the Celts, Newell freshly expressed the ancient Celtic vision of creation’s sacredness and unity. In that poetic treatment of the wisdom of Celtic spirituality, he pointed the way to a Christianity more integrated with the earth and with the rest of humanity. A New Ancient Harmony takes the next step forward by articulating a vision and a pathway toward transformation in our lives and world. A New Ancient Harmony communicates across the boundaries of religion and race that have separated us and honors our distinct inheritances by serving what is deeper still—the oneness of our origins and the oneness of earth’s destiny.
Newell explores the ancient harmony that is deep in the matter of the universe, the essential interconnectedness of all things. Everything, whether the expanding light of distant galaxies or humanity’s inner light of mind and consciousness, carries within itself the life of the universe’s shared beginning. With keen insight and sensitivity, he confronts the brokenness of our harmony, as individuals and families and as nations and species. Only by knowing and naming the extent and depth of our disharmony will we find the way forward. Confronting our brokenness, individually and together, is integral to the hope for healing.
Throughout the book, Newell leads us on a pathway of discovery toward transforming the way we understand ourselves. He challenges us to consider the possibilities of a new, yet ancient, harmony in our lives—as individuals, as communities, and as nations—by asking “What is the cost, both personal and collective, of releasing life’s essential oneness in radically new and transformative ways?”
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From the seed of the Foy stories 10 years ago, to meticulous editing and revisions, it’s so great to see all the hard work coming together – Gordon Atkinson‘s talented writing, Paul Soupiset‘s phenomenal cover design, and Catherine Moroney‘s amazing video skills. It has taken a village to bring this book to life! Check out the book trailer…
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Tuesdays with Mary C. Earle
What does your Tuesday morning look like? Perhaps you spend it wading through the weeds of your inbox, sipping on disappointingly-lukewarm coffee. Maybe you attend a series of meetings, or ready the kids for school in a flurry of lunchboxes and carpool lines. In any case, it’s unlikely you devote Tuesday mornings to meditation,…
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