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Small but powerful, the books in the inSpirit Series are perfect for on-the-go reflection or a quiet, meditative moment at home. We hope these meditations on resilience, justice, and more will nourish your spirit. Browse our complete selection online.
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by Julián Jamaica Soto
Intimate and uncompromising, Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto’s debut collection, Spilling the Light, is a luminous offering to their communities and a defiant declaration of their worth in a world hostile to their queer, disabled, and brown being. "America, is this freedom?" they ask.
"I cannot prove to you that / I am a person," writing boldly of identity, community, liberation, and erasure through a prism of tender moments and powerful reckonings. These are poems of hunger and fire. They are complex, tender, and empowering. They embolden us to become our truest selves, willing us to survive.
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by Atena O. Danner
Incantations for Rest is an invitation to slow down and explore every kind of rest, providing sacred space for those
exhausted by the demands of a racist, ableist society. The most recent volume of the inSpirit Series, this stunning collection of poems, meditations, and magic by poet-activist Atena O. Danner is an examination of
spiritual spaces, a love letter to Black well-being, and medicine for BIPOC people. It is a beacon of affirmation and a vital tool for ritual and reflection.
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by Sean Parker Dennison
In Breaking and Blessing, the 2020 volume of the inSpirit Series, Sean Parker Dennison imagines letters from angels, draws on the natural world, and reflects on love and calling. They chart a path, moving here and there, as if across a constellation—connecting mathematics to love, stars to saplings, and breaking to
blessing. Rev. Dennison’s striking debut will serve as both solace and flame to readers looking for them in equal measure.
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Love Like Thunder: Meditations
by Jess Reynolds
In Love Like Thunder, the 2018 volume of the inSpirit Series, a vibrant new poetic voice invites us into an intimate relationship with nature, God, and love itself. Jess Reynolds weeps in the desert at night, meditates on heart emojis, lets a river of love run wildly in their body, and together with their partner God goes to couples counseling to find their way. Jess Reynolds’ lyric poetry flows like water between genders, between body and spirit, and between earth and sky.
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Love Beyond God: Meditations
by Adam Lawrence Dyer
The 2016 volume of the popular inSpirit Series, Love Beyond God is a powerful, poignant, and prophetic collection of poems from writer, activist and educator Adam Lawrence Dyer. This timely collection explores faith, race, love, identity, and so much more, and invites readers to think deeply about their place and role in contemporary society.
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Sonata for Voice and Silence
by Mark Belletini
The 2008 inSpirit Series title is a collection of poetic prayers about human connections, the search for stillness, and the mysteries of life and death. As the title suggests, beloved poet and retired minister
Mark Belletini's collection is shaped by the theme of sound and silence. Moon songs, chirping crickets, and chanting bees abound. Experience the silence of love, friendship, snowflakes, and creation in these stunning and insightful poems.
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