THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT BEING AN EPISCOPALIAN

by Ron Starbuck

PRAISE for "THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT BEING AN EPISCOPALIAN" Ron Starbuck is poet who has taken to heart and soul the teaching in Psalm 46, Be still and know that I am God. Spoken in the voice of a deep listener, who seeks to embrace all souls in the Mystery of God s Love, who seeks to heal the breach. These poems are ecumenical both in that they are unifying and in the etymological root of the word, which is derived from the Greek word for house. Here is poetry that beautifully and prayerfully makes of the world a home where all of us may dwell. Aliki Barnstone, University of Missouri Ron Starbuck has written a work of extraordinary vision and prophecy; this is a book of both profound reverence and a song of contemporary liturgy. It is a masterpiece that will transform the belief and devotion of all who experience these lines, either verbally or literally. Without doubt, this is a great work for the new Twenty-First Century. Kevin McGrath, Harvard University This ebook edition contains 10 audio recordings.

Kindle Edition

Published July 9, 2016

About the author

Ron is the author of A Pilgrimage of Churches, There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian, Wheels Turning Inward, and When Angels Are Born, three rich collections following a poet’s mythic and spiritual journey that crosses easily onto the paths of many contemplative traditions. He has been deeply engaged in an Interfaith-Buddhist-Christian dialogue for many years.

RON STARBUCK is the Publisher/CEO/Executive Editor of Saint Julian Press, Inc., in Houston, Texas; a poet and writer, an Episcopalian, and author of There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian, When Angels Are Born, Wheels Turning Inward, and most recently A Pilgrimage of Churches, four rich collections of poetry, following a poet’s mythic and spiritual journey that crosses easily onto the paths of many contemplative traditions.

He has been deeply engaged in an Interfaith-Buddhist-Christian dialogue for many years. He has a lifelong interest in literature, poetry, Christian mysticism, comparative literature and religion, theology, and various contemplative practice forms. His work as a poet is known for leaning into these monastic poetic traditions, with an understanding that sacred scripture and liturgy are poetic.

He has been a contributing writer for Parabola Magazine. And has had poems, translations, and essays published in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, an interview, and poem in The Criterion: An Online International Journal in English, The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, ONE from MillerWords (Feb. 2016), and Pirene's Fountain, Volume 7 Issue 15, from Glass Lyre Press (Oct. 2014), Levure Littéraire (France – 2017 & 2018), La Piccioletta Barca (Nov. 2019), and The Tulane Review (Fall 2019). A collection of essays, poems, short stories, and audio recordings are available on the Saint Julian Press, Inc., website under Interconnections.
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Forming an independent literary press to work with emerging and established writers and poets and tendering new introductions to the world in an interfaith and cross-cultural literary dialogue has been a long-time dream.