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William Flewelling
These Reflective Prayers are the result of permitting a gentle reading of the lectionary texts for a given service to resonate in me and emerge as a searching engagement of…
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These pastoral notes concern an effort to provide a pastoral input to my congregations in a way that is not sermonic in nature. The ?Letters to Anna? deal with reflections…
The Psalm Meditations take up my own translation of the selected psalms based on the Hebrew Masoretic Text and a meditative reflection addressed, for the most part, to God. All…
These meditations take a verse from one of the lectionary texts not chosen for preaching for a given service and offer a devotional reflection on the verse, often using the…
I n the Christian church Disciples of Christ, a prominent part of the leadership of the local congregation consists of elders. These are lay people, for the most part. The…
I had been asked to do a Bible study when I began my first church out of seminary. I agreed, so long as I could do it my way. In…
The Bible studies I chose to do in answer to the request of my first congregation out of seminary sought to present a serious, somewhat scholarly approach to the interested…
The poems In W. C. Flewelling’s fifth collection, IN SILHOUETTE, present the acute observation of people and nature whose meanings lie beneath the quiet surface of domestic life, meanings only…
I keep a copy of your book “From Recurrent Yesterdays” at my place in Chapel. By coming a short time before Midday Prayer begins, I have time to “pray” a…
On “My West Virginia” - “What a wondrous anthem this is! I don’t think I’ve ever heard you champion your home so fully and lyrically. I’ve heard you describe much…
I imagine the front cover photograph running over onto the back, as has occurred in others of my poetry books
Those elements of life that encounter us in people and events, in memories and nature, in the life of conviction and hope form the spawn of these poems. They mean…
These reflective prayers are the result of permitting a gentle reading of the lectionary texts for a given service to resonate in me and emerge as a searching engagement of…
In an endeavor to find a fresh way into the scriptural text upon which I would be preaching, I began to develop an imaginary world, populated primarily by wee folk…
Life engages the eye and ear, all the senses, offering a vision of some inclination or intrigue. Often, in a poet's mind, those hints and guesses that come in glimpses…
The engagement of life in all its surprises, the faces and actions of people, the impressions given by nature, the way these stir the heart and entice the mind into…
In an endeavor to find a fresh way into the scriptural text upon which I would be preaching, I began to develop an imaginary world populated primarily by wee folk…
Faces and actions of people and animals, the flair of nature, and the subtleties of interaction, the way life arrives for me to observe and live, to hear and sense…
The prayer-poems of this collection are spiritual reflections on my engagement with the three readings listed at the top of each reflective prayer. They are intended to invite the reader…
The Corner Table’s Point Of View My corner table sits in this back niche, along the path from door to arch, from back hall to the next room, looking to…
“The collection is a delight. What I especially like are its sprightly juxtapositions – every poem that follows every other poem strikes a different note – surprises by its sudden…
From the ways a dog shares life and experiences with his master, these poems play on the simple ways of the life we shared in the hills of West Virginia…
“I find that your poems should not be read quickly, but thoughtfully and with prayer.” Sr. Mary Fay, OSB “I’ve read through the new collection and I find it wonderfully…
These "Studies" comprise the bulk of my more or less academic-styled searching toward understanding of aspects of my ministry, particularly with regard to ministry itself, to the life of prayer…
My poems sharpen my sight, so that I see better what is there to be seen. I will find some situation or image or nuance that catches my eye, intrigues…
This is the last book in the series of Inn-by-the-Bye stories. It includes not only the final stories of the sequence but also a Prequel in that a related and…
Reading that the 2.88.888. hymn meter is considered powerful in Welsh hymnody - but that it is not used in English - I became curious. I tried the pattern out…
Abbot Andre Louf said that, when a person decides to get serious about the spiritual life, s/he should acquire a spiritual director. Wayne Proudfoot argued that the form of religious…
My poems help me see what is in front of me. They typically find an image presented to me, a line of words appearing - a first line, in fact…
As a minister in practice, hymns are a part of the whole scheme of things. And, doing the things that matter in ministry, dealing with hymns is a natural. Being…
As a preacher seeking a fresh way into the text I would be using for preaching, I began to develop an imaginary world populated primarily by wee folk. I found…
My poems help me see what is in front of me. They typically find that an image is presented, an image that seems to suggest a line of verse, just…
Life is encountered in events and images, in what is overheard and what is noticed in some little corner of awareness. Some of these flickers in life become as muses…
Among those under my pastoral care was a particular man with Alzheimer's disease, Matt. As a part of my care, having found that writing poetry about the situations I encounter…
The Bible studies I chose to do in answer to the request of my first congregation out of seminary sought to present a serious, somewhat-scholarly approach to the interested among…
