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Nov./Dec. 2004 |
Hoosier offers new book of Christmas poetry
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A new book of Christmas poetry has just been released by Fairway Press entitled, Keeping Christmas. The Rev. J. Philip Klinger, a retired minister of the North Indiana Conference, has written these poems over a forty-year period and has collected them in one volume. In his introduction, Klinger writes "I do not write poetry, I write poems. Some of the poems are time-sensitive, some are feeling-driven, and others are event-inspired."
In his forward to the publication, Neal F. Fisher, president emeritus of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. writes:
"William Wordsworth said that poetry springs from "emotion recollected in tranquility." In Keeping Christmas, a distinguished pastor and preacher recollects in the tranquility of the Christmas story the emotions of changing times. Readers will locate themselves in these lines of verse written in the context of family and public events. They will also find their faith fortified by the vibrant personal witness of one who has embraced the Story of Christ's birth and made it his own."
Copies of Keeping Christmas may be ordered from Klinger for $8.95 plus $1.50 for shipping and handling at 2523 Nottingham Place, West Lafayette, IN 47906 or by e-mail at ncklinger@aol.com.
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