Writing in the Margins Connecting with God on the Pages of Your Bible

Name: Writing in the Margins Connecting with God on the Pages of Your Bible
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ISBN: 9781426767500

ISBN-10: 1426767501

ISBN-13: 9781426767500

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lisa Nichols Hickman

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No other time-honored spiritual practice is as immediate, raw, and engaged with Scripture as writing—responding to God--in the margins of the Bible. Composers like Bach to theologians like Barth, botanists and saints—all have engaged in personal and devotional ways with this practice. In doing so they engaged their fullest selves with our most significant text. Some people have lived with Scripture all their lives and yet feel estranged from it. This book inspires a new encounter with the living Word—and jump-starts a deep and creative and hands-on approach to reading Scripture. As you sit, with pencil, pen, crayon, or marker in hand and Bible in lap, at whatever edges of life you are…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 8/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 166
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Foreword


Sacred Edges


Love Letters


Facing the Margins of Our Lives


Laying Out the Golden Ratio of Page Design


A God Who Writes in the Margins


Marginalia and Memos, Scholia and Scribbles


Connecting Word to World: Praying the Horizontal and the Vertical


Praying in That Inch of Space


Writing Through Conflict


Practicing Scriptural Disciplines


Living in the Margins


Marginal Writing in a Digital Age


Writing, To Set Things Right


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography