My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer NATIONAL BESTSELLER - At once

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait--the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth

Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies

he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities

on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world

full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer NATIONAL BESTSELLER - At onceEight years ago, Christian Wiman, a well known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition might look like. Joyful, sorrowful, and beautifully