Austin Smith
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"There is little credibility in healing a privileged world. If the Church is failing the powerless of this world, it is failing the Gospel totally."
In 1971, two priests from a Catholic order left their monastery in order to reinvent the contemplative life amid a Liverpool community oppressed by poverty and systemic racism. Foreshadowing the 'new monastic' movement, the members of a 300-year-old religious order began to translate the radical,...
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Austin Smith was born in the rural Midwest. Most recently, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University.
The "memorable" (Stephanie Burt, Yale Review) and "impressive" (Chicago Tribune) debut from a remarkable new voice in poetry
Almanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the poems are all involved in some way with the rural...
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"Finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, Northern California Book Reviewers" Austin Smith grew up on a family dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. He is the author of a previous poetry collection, Almanac (Princeton), and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, and many other publications. He teaches at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.
A new collection about violence and the rural Midwest...
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Most college students struggle tremendously with their bodies.
Numerous issues related to the body plague higher education. Students struggle with sleep, mental health, eating disorders, sexual identity questions, clothing choices, obesity, and alcohol problems, among other concerns. Too often Christian colleges try to meet these challenges with rules instead of setting forth a vision of what it means to steward the body-a precious gift from God...
5) Sk8 Dawg
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Though he's a klutz on wheels, Tommy accepts a skateboarding challenge from a local bully. To win, he'll need to learn fast from skater Alice - and Buddy, his talking, skateboarding dog!