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    Pages Called Holy: Poems
    Pages Called Holy: Poems
    Pages Called Holy: Poems
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    Pages Called Holy: Poems

    By J. Ted Voigt

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    Seeking to live a Christian life in this American society can often evoke a wide range of emotions, and the precipitation sometimes looks like poetry. Times of great joy as well as times of disappointment and great sorrow are excellent catalysts for a kind of poetry that speaks in real ways to real people. This project contains both joy and sorrow, in an attempt to express different aspects of the changing atmosphere of the religious experience in the twenty-first century. I believe poetry can speak simply to deeper theological ideas in a way that is both deeply beautiful and deeply true.
    At times theology can be a very inaccessible subject for the average layperson, but it can also have a certain simple beauty that anyone can appreciate. As I have read and learned about theology, I've always found that the most profound ideas can be written out logically in essays and books, or they can be stated in succinct but imaginative phrases. I write with the latter category in mind.
    Pages Called Holy has been written over the past three years as I live, work, and learn in a local church. Most of these poems have their inspiration in the struggles of church life and the disparity between what I see happening and what I see God calling the Church to be. It is this tension that brings life to the poetry I write, and it is my hope that these poems would speak to an audience of the countless numbers of believers across all generations who feel that same tension between what is and what could be.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJun 1, 2009
    ISBN9781498274722
    Pages Called Holy: Poems
    Author

    J. Ted Voigt

    J. Ted Voigt is a poet living and working in Kansas City, Missouri. Pages Called Holy is the first collection of his work.

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      Pages Called Holy - J. Ted Voigt

      Pages Called Holy

      Poems

      J. Ted Voigt

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      PAGES CALLED HOLY

      Poems

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      2009

      J. Ted Voigt. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers,

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      I

      These Pages Called Holy

      A Firm Foundation

      Language Barrier

      The Beginning

      II

      Translation

      Words

      The Image of 3 Gods

      Paradox

      Erosion

      Real fear

      Haiku 001

      III

      Escape

      Elegy for Antioch Mall

      September 25th

      History

      Sanctification

      Wake up

      Thoughts on Duality and Identity in Three Movements

      How To . . .

      IV

      Economics of Prayer

      The Struggle

      A Theology of Pain

      Delete

      One

      Believe/imagine

      V

      Missional Deconstruction

      Some Easter thoughts

      Mo(u)rning Worship

      Stop

      Otro Mundo es Posible

      Springtime for a Church

      The Night the Church Caught Fire

      Order of the Broken Hearted

      VI

      A Leak

      Eruption

      Exportation

      Good News For the Modern Man

      The Evangelist

      My Manifesto

      Elegy for the Modern

      Reflecting on a Journey

      To my wife, Sarah, mi vida, te amo

      I

      These Pages Called Holy

      I don’t understand it (I’ll do it

      but I don’t understand it)

      because you asked me

      even though it doesn’t really

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