My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer he reckons with his own

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

"-Washington Post Book World "Edmundson's an engaging teacher

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

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My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer he reckons with his ownEight 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