My BOOKS
A Feast of Epiphanies
and other stories
A tourist in Austria encounters an unexpected sibyl during an ill-fated night at the opera. A tormented soul finds help at the hands of an unlikely tattoo artist. A betrayed wife finds in her dreams a hopeful pattern to her pain. In this collection of stories, moments like these become invitations to explore the enigmatic intersection between the seen and the unseen. In “Ghosted,” a text message gets sent to an impossibly wrong number. In “Songs of Deliverance,” a bereaved son buys a used guitar and learns far more than simply how to play it. In “Christopher,” two boys go LARPing and discover the sad truth about the roles we all play. Through these and other stories, A Feast of Epiphanies examines the mysterious ways in which the natural stuff of life somehow cradles the supernatural, and the supernatural offers us tremulous glimpses of what is truly natural.
Though I Walk
Winner of the 2020 Braun Book Award for Fiction
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The truths of the past are often the hardest to face. When Grace said goodbye to her fiancé Stephen Walker in 1937, as he left Halifax to participate in an archaeological dig in Greece, she had no idea that World War II would soon erupt across Europe and keep them apart for nearly ten years. Though they are eventually reunited after the war, the trauma of what he did and saw in Greece keeps Stephen from ever speaking about it. When he dies suddenly of a heart attack in 1967 however, Grace finds among his effects the journal he kept during that dark time. As she reads it, she uncovers a story she never imagined, about the man she thought she knew.
Daytime Moons and Other Celestial Anomalies
A Book of Poems
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This collection of poetry humbly presents a few travel notes gathered together from one pilgrim's journey in the spiritual life. It contains the simple prayers of a father for his kids, the burdens of a pastor for his people, the honest reflections of a passionate lover of Scripture, and the deep heart-cries of a child of God, all of them distilled down to their poetic essence and recast as the stuff of revelation. By turns reflective, raw, reverent and playful, these poems explore the spiritual dimensions of everyday things, the mysterious presence of God in both the dark and dazzling moments of our lives, and the joy of trying to put his glory into words.
The Saint and the Slave
A Musical based on the life of St. Patrick.
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In 431 AD, an escaped slave-turned-priest returns to the island that had enslaved him as a child, bearing a message of divine love and eternal life. From the pig-sties of Ireland's peasants to the halls of her High King, he is determined to stare down the darkness that holds it in thrall, until all of Ireland has heard.
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With twelve original songs and a compelling script, this musical reimagines the story of St. Patrick, Apostle to the Irish. Journey back to 5th-century Ireland with him as he introduces slaves and chieftains, warriors and druids, and anyone else who will listen, to the Three-in-One God he serves and loves.
