Adventurous Spirituality FOR UNCONVENTIONAL PEOPLE WILDHOUSE BOOKS A Unique Press Wildhouse Publishing exists to bring transformative spiritual insights to people for whom traditional resources may not fit. Maybe these folk are spiritual but not religious. Maybe they are spiritual atheists and agnostics. Maybe they are on the margins of a religious community. Maybe they fit […]| Wildhouse Publishing
At forty-six years old, Lila begins living life at a higher frequency. The world feels different to her, the grass looks greener, the flowers smell more fragrant. Her life view has changed. She founds an art foundation in her community. Lila was unrecognizable two years prior, when her world felt like it was crashing in […] The post Life Amplified appeared first on Wildhouse Publishing.| Wildhouse Publishing
During the pandemic, Alison Luterman started taking voice lessons in order to sing and collaborate with her musician husband. She did not start out with a firm grasp of pitch or a great sense of rhythm, but had a lot of enthusiasm, a wonderful teacher, and a willingness to work hard. Learning to “speak music”—her […]| Wildhouse Publishing
In 38 CE Alexandria, Salome, a skilled physician with a past she’s fought to suppress, struggles to navigate the complex landscape of first-century womanhood and the rapid progression of dementia threatening both her memory and medical practice. John Mark, a follower of the fledgling Christian movement, is sent to preach the hope of Yeshua’s message […]| Wildhouse Publishing
Some of the most moving passages in the gospels take place in the twilight liminality of what we call Easter. The gospel writers didn’t have a name for it, certainly nothing like “Easter,” and the accounts were still fluid. Perhaps that is why the very human emotions of loss, grief, fear, and abandonment still read […] The post What Easter Can Teach Us About Awesome Uncertainty appeared first on Wildhouse Publishing.| Wildhouse Publishing
To Phrase a Prayer for Peace wrestles with what is holy, with the world as we humans have constructed it, with war and violence, with love and friendship, with communication between people (and nations) who might not agree, with being comfortable while others are dying, with the felt fears of a Jew and thus the need […] The post To Phrase a Prayer for Peace appeared first on Wildhouse Publishing.| Wildhouse Publishing
Sometimes the most ordinary object can open a door to life’s greatest mysteries. For Paula Sager, it’s a wristwatch—one that takes on a life of its own after her father’s death, prompting questions concerning synchronicity and the nature of relationship. Paula walks alongside her father to the threshold of life, bearing witness to every step. […] The post The Watch appeared first on Wildhouse Publishing.| Wildhouse Publishing
I cannot listen to music while I am writing. Perhaps because the act of making music preceded, for me, the act of making words make sense on paper. It doesn’t matter what style of music—I have tried classical music, lo-fi, jazz. Nothing works. My ear is immediately drawn to the sound and my concentration is […] The post Songs of Praise, Power, and Pain: John Hamilton’s Honest to God Playlist appeared first on Wildhouse Publishing.| Wildhouse Publishing
In The Unfolding, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer startles us with the wonder, beauty, and sacred connection that blossom out of living wholeheartedly. Here the aching heart goes dancing. Written after the deaths of her son and father, these poems embody paradox—simultaneously somber and playful, brokenhearted and uplifting, even solemn and sexy. Trommer wades heart-deep in the broken […] The post The Unfolding appeared first on Wildhouse Publishing.| Wildhouse Publishing
I Could Ask You by Chris Anderson I could ask you, how many of the gospels describe the Resurrection itself, whatever really happened in that moment, inside the tomb, and there could be only one right answer, whatever your faith or doubt: none. The words are the words. They only say what they […]| Wildhouse Publishing
With its focus on memory, illness, and their ramifications, Seeing Things explores overlapping roles of a daughter whose mother is entering the beginning stages of dementia and of a mother whose daughter is struggling with depression. These poems also witness a woman juggling her own memories of abuse and survival who lives in a world […]| Wildhouse Publishing