More Everyday Parables: Simple Stories for Spiritual Reflection
About this ebook
A master at finding God in ordinary life, Jim offers these "parables without explanation" as an opportunity for the reader to draw closer to God. And so he writes about horses and dogs and pears to remind us that God speaks to us through the world around us and in everything we do. In this wayMore Everyday Parablesre-enacts Jesus' own method of teaching.
For individual and group use, each story is linked to a biblical passage and a "musing" by the author.
Features
- Introduction to the use of the parables
- Thought-provoking one-page stories, reflections, and biblical references
- Biblical reference index
- Black and white photographic illustrations
About the author
Jim Taylor is one of Canada's best known authors and editors among mainline churches and denominations. He is the author of twelve books himself including The Spirituality of Pets (2006), An Everyday God (2005), <>Precious Days and Practical Love: Caring for an Aging Parent (1999), The Canadian Religious Travelguide (1982), Discovering Discipleship (with George Johnston, 1983), Two Worlds in One (1985), Last Chance (1989), Surviving Death (1993) republished as Letters to Stephen (1996), Everyday Psalms (1994), Everyday Parables (1995), Sin: A New Understanding of Virtue and Vice (1997), Lifelong Living (for the United Church's Division of Mission in Canada) (1983), and The Spiritual Crisis of Cancer (for the Canadian Cancer Society) (1984).
He was
the founding editor of the ecumenical clergy journal Practice of Ministry in
Canada (PMC) for the first 15 years of its publication. He was for 13 years
Managing Editor of The United Church Observer. A co-founder of Wood Lake Books,
Taylor lives and works in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley.
