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This is the voice of all creation, you travel upon God's holy breath, invoking the eternal: yours is a mighty soul, \/ new as the earth was young, \/ and older still.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e H l ne Cardona, Actor, poet and Henry James Scholar, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eDreaming My Animal Selves\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRon Starbuck is my kind of poet - he writes with a clarity and simplicity that draw me into feelings and images that can never be clear and simple. His angels can be seen everywhere, but they speak of mystery that can never be captured anywhere. My favorite among his angels is his dog, Nick, his old friend who taught me the truth of unconditional love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Paul F. Knitter, Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorld Religions, and Culture, Union Theological Seminary, New York, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand author of \u003cem\u003eWithout Buddha I Could not be a Christian\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRon Starbuck makes his poems from a very particular point of inflection, reflection and at times of deep genuflection. There are moments of lyrical beauty, of human intimacy shared with the stranger-reader that elevates the personal into the universal. There are also insights born of deep experience and transmuted into words and rhythm that gently and powerfully invoke the sense of the sacred. This marriage of emotion and spiritual consciousness makes this poetry especially memorable and helpful to the quest for the personal knowledge of truth that his readers will be urged more eagerly to make as they become more familiar with his voice and vision.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Laurence Freeman OSB, author of\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst Sight: The Experience of Faith\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJesus The Teacher Within\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51220436418833,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51220437336337,"sku":"NIN9780988944701","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52619268489489,"sku":"NLS9780988944701","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0988944707.jpg?v=1750820988"},{"product_id":"when-angels-are-born-book-ron-starbuck-9780615751498","title":"When Angels Are Born","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51224879857937,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51224882250001,"sku":"NIN9780615751498","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0615751490.jpg?v=1750742759"},{"product_id":"there-is-something-about-being-an-episcopalian-book-ron-starbuck-9780996523172","title":"There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE for \u003ci\u003e THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT BEING AN EPISCOPALIAN \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRon 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Aliki Barnstone, University of Missouri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRon 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. 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