EPUB Reflow-able eBook EditionA Pilgrimage of Churches arises from the landscape of the Great Plains, the people who live there, who work the land, and who worship together in community on the Sabbath Day. They hold a heritage of faith and devotion that is an American story. It is our story. The desire here is to tell it with a Quaker simplicity and sacramental sincerity as a part of an American family’s legacy and attentiveness. It is a story of remembran...

THE NEARNESS OF LIGHTWhat if one brief meeting had been allowed to deepen?In this imagined encounter between Carl Sandburg and Marilyn Monroe, a playwright and poet moves beyond the historical record into a space of quiet possibility-where the brightness of public life gives way to something more searching, more exact: clarity.Set in the softening light of late afternoon, The Nearness of Light unfolds as a conversation about identity, perce...

The Lamp is a lament in verse, written for theater in the round and presented in three movements. Standing in conversation with Luke 11:34-36 and the tradition of modern poetic drama, it explores how a city sees - and what happens when fear begins to shape perception.In an unnamed American city, labor rises before dawn. Kitchens open. Concrete sets. Towers catch morning light. Yet beneath the brightness, a line is already forming - quiet, procedural, almost reasonable - be...

A Poetic Dialogue with Paul Tillich on Grace, Faith, and BeingYou Are Accepted: In Conversation with Paul Tillich - A Poetic Discourse: On Grace After the Fall is a contemplative collection of poetry inspired by Paul Tillich's classic theological work, The Shaking of the Foundations. Written by poet and publisher Ron Starbuck, this volume offers original poems that respond to Tillich's sermons, not through commentary, but through poetic dialogue-e...

In Conversation with Saint Julian - Praise for At the Still PointIn this contemplative and lyrically rich collection, poet Ron Starbuck offers a series of poetic "Disclosures" inspired by Revelations of Divine Love, the visionary 14th-century work by Julian of Norwich. Rather than offering a translation or paraphrase, these original poems are written in reverent response-drawing the reader into an unfolding conversation across centuries.Ju...