Religious Poetry

UnRee Deemed: The Unwanted Daughter of a Pedophile was written as a fictional truth. The president of our Mission Group, Sister Margaret Washington asked me to write a Easter play. After talking it over with my cousin Gayle, who is a play writer, we came up with an ideal. We didn’t want it to be typical where the story simply reported about Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, but we also wanted to show characters who desperately needed God’s plan of salvation.

Welcome to Ben Westwood's collection of 60 true-story poems, Poems from a Runaway. It’s his story of being a teenager in care, and a frequent runaway from the West Midlands (UK)....

Durante cuarenta años pero de a ratos, de a tirones -en cierto modo oportunista poeta dominguero- fui escribiendo los poemas que se enfilan detrás o debajo del rótulo general de El versero. El título tiene, entre muchas otras, una doble y consciente significación.

It's not the getting there that counts, it's the journey. Join our hero on his often gruesome journey to "the City". The horrors of evil forces try to lead him off the path as others join him on his quest. What or who awaits him? What is this force that compels him to make the trip, with all the dangers that try to ensnare him in their grasping claws and tantalising delights? The settlement of Oasis and the master Gregory wait for him to find his way to them so they can ensnare and enslave him. Somewhere ahead is the City. Will Ruth be waiting for him?

Gemini: The Two-Faced Christian is a fictional depiction of how people may claim to be a Christian and profess to be a Christian, but based on the “deeds” of their flesh they are not. Gemini was a local and renown Christian leader who claimed to be saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. In all appearances, she looked like the real thing, but privately she lived a life of sin and carnality. When she met client, Susan Taylor, she realized she’d departed from God, needed to repent, and it turned her life upside down.

Steve Bornbach was a simple country boy growing up in central Wisconsin, USA. Growing up in the beautiful township of Saratoga afforded many memorable stories; such as dirt track races, hillbillies on go carts, voices of women screaming in the night, wasps making music on hot summer days, a dry run full of water, fighting against snapping turtles, and much more.

Mia Morning star, the firstborn of Adam and Eve, being in Heaven when sin fell on the Earth, kept herself from the curse of death that overcame the whole world - seeing what happened to her parents by a beloved angel that she knew since a child.

Adam Davis is devastated after the death of his close friend Madeline Donohue who’s aged in her 20s. Adam and Madeline are first cousins who shared their hopes, their dreams, their fears, and their desires. In a series of flashbacks during the funeral service, Adam reflects on some of the more precious moments they had together: the family gatherings, the parties and the holidays. He recalls with some humour their teenage years and their many heart-to-hearts. Who will find love first, who will marry first, and how many children will they have?

Sydnie McMillan, a young Alabama divorcee, could have never imagined that giving to a homeless man would set in motion a chain of events that would change the lives of so many. But when God steps in, you can always expect the unexpected.

Finding God in Abandoned Places is a collection of Christian short stories, largely inspired by a desire to recognize the presence of the Holy Spirit, anytime and anywhere in our modern world. Each story is a reflective, thought-provoking piece on how God speaks to us daily through his word, and how to build upon that for richer spiritual insights.

The Pilgrim’s Progress, a religious allegory by John Bunyan, was published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. The work is a symbolic vision of the good man’s pilgrimage through life. The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most famous Christian allegories of all time.

Judy has been a bitter, angry person for years. Her constant yelling has affected her children's attitudes and pushed her husband away. But all that changes one night when she finds herself on a deserted road being touched by God. This moment begins a transformation that will affect everyone around her. Judy struggles at first to let go of her old ways, but as she learns to let go and allows God to guide her, she finds that life changes for the better. She becomes calm and peaceful as she places God first and foremost at the center of her life.

The hero of this story begins his adventures after his death in the underworld of Greek mythology.

Mette Harrison’s Book of Laman is not funny. It doesn’t use intentional archaisms to make fun of the Book of Mormon’s language; rather, it tells its story in a non-distracting modern style. The characters are not simply reversed. Nephi is sometimes an annoying brat, but he is also a real prophet who sees and speaks for the Lord. Laman is neither a comic book villain nor a long-suffering ironist. He is a flawed human being struggling to live well and usually coming up short. And in some of the book’s very best scenes, he is touched unexpectedly by grace and God.

With the help of an itinerant, significantly unorthodox, and slightly renegade preacher, a small Tennessee mountain town continues to make spiritual and economic progress during the worst years of the Great Depression.

Becky Connors lived in the same place for most of her life. An old southern town, one of the oldest in her home state of Florida. Even though she traveled extensively and lived in many places, Becky returned home to her "slice of Heaven" located on the beautiful Gulf Of Mexico in the Forgotten Coast. All of her group had remained close since elementary school and later in their university days at Auburn University.

A new destiny is about to unfold. Upon receiving mysterious books from their dying grandfather, 13-year-old Kie Kinsely, and his younger brother, Max, learn of an invisible war that has been ranging for over 2,000 years. Accepting their place in this ancient war as the blade children, the two brothers gain the ability to see angels and demons that roam the earth. Together, along with their guardians, Kie and Max are sent to the spiritual world by a supernatural force.

This fiction work is set in the future (2060), and is about America turning its back on God.... And God doing the same to America - by doing away with Mirecals. The main character, David Quinn, dies. His spirit goes to Heaven and makes a deal with God. He must come back as two different characters, each one having a mission - to help bring God back to America. If they succeed, God will come back.

Nathan Andrews was a good man. It came as quite a surprise to him that he wanted to die. The mysterious image of a woman haunts Nathan during a near death experience. She was "perfect" and everything a man would seek within a life partner. With the simple utterance, "Go back!" she forever conquered his heart. Leaving a mental hospital after that, Nathan runs into an odd woman named Amanda. She barely knows English, doesn't recognize the simple things, and finally confesses an all-important truth to him: She...is God!

Life, death, and love have no boundaries for a cast of timeless characters in Angels Unshelved. It is a tale that takes the listener on a journey back and forth between heaven and earth as Emma Lanrete (anagram for eternal) tells her comatose mother she will give her life one more year to see if it is worth living and to determine if she is enough....