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A sterling appraisal of "Notes for a Postlude" from the theologian Dr. Jon Bentall. I am grateful for the many people who support and engage with my work.

Notes for a Postlude Review

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I want to express my thanks to Wipf and Stock for accepting Notes for a Postlude for publication. I signed the contract yesterday. This is my second poetry collection. It includes a theological introduction by J.P. O'Connor (PhD / Princeton).

This is a book for "orphaned believers."

I'm pleased to announce that my second volume of poetry, Notes for a Postlude, was accepted by Wipf and Stock for publication. The book includes a sterling introduction from the theologian J.P. O'Connor (Princeton/PhD).

The book is dedicated to my children and to the many "orphaned believers" I've been in dialogue with as an ordained deacon, especially those who have watched their faith hijacked by the heresy of Christian Nationalism and a "will to power" political ethos that informs the Evangelical imagination. The book vacillates between polemic and prayer in equal measure. Poems from this volume appeared in Mockingbird, Crab Creek Review, North American Anglican, and Ruminate. I'm grateful to Charles Hughes, Lenae Nofziger, and Joe Day for the generous appraisal ahead of publication. Stay tuned for more details.



Jeremiah Webster’s affecting new poems bespeak enduring faith and hard-won hope. And finely wrought as they are, they strike an elegiac note as well—appropriately enough in our strange and difficult times. “The solemn sea is no longer wine dark,” according to the refrain of the brilliant long poem, “The Solemn Sea,” as perhaps in more God-haunted times it was. But remember nonetheless, the same poem assures us, that God—the God who is love—continues to brood over the waters. We need this hope now; we “mustn’t flail about,” Webster says in another poem, as we swim along beside our children.
 
Charles Hughes / Poet / Author of The Evening Sky and Cave Art  

With the voice both wild and widely read, these poems ask questions that echo through ages but ring with unsettling intensity for those of us living in this particular moment. Despite “creation’s diminished returns,” these poems are alive and active.  Jeremiah Webster’s collection won’t let us rest but “tugs [our] stiff-necked / affluence toward Jesus.” Perhaps if we listen, we, too, can “take wing / in the four chambered / cathedral hidden / in the avian heart,” created by and cradled in the hands of God. May it be so.
 
Lenae Nofziger / Professor / Poet / Author of Signs Following
 
These poems simultaneously traverse polemic and lament. But more than anything, they offer a fresh dose of Gospel hope to souls weary of the Evangelical obsession with power at any cost.
 
Joe Day / Singer – Songwriter / Host of The Half Light Podcast

Congrats to the ten individuals who won a free copy of Follow the Devil / Follow the Light. Copies will be sent via post today.

If you didn't win this giveaway, I sincerely hope you still decide to follow young Joe Muggeridge on his journey through the underworld. Morte Magari and The Worm King await!

Thanks to everyone who made this Goodreads Giveaway possible.

The Goodreads Giveaway for Follow the Devil / Follow the Light ends tomorrow. Congrats in advance to the ten lucky winners! The books are all ready to go for shipping.

It's not too late to enter the Goodreads Giveaway for Follow the Devil / Follow the Light. Ten individuals will receive a signed copy of the novel. Contest ends June 15th.

My sincere thanks to everyone who has left a positive review on Amazon and here on Goodreads.

The Goodreads Giveaway for Follow the Devil / Follow the Light is officially open. You can enter the contest here:

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From May 17th to June 15th, readers can enter a Goodreads Giveaway for a free copy of Follow the Devil / Follow the Light. Ten name will be drawn at random, and the novel will be mailed to the listed address.

Stay tuned for further details.