Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies

 In this spirited collection of essays, Brian Doyle employs his wit, wisdom, and gusto for life as he shares with readers his thoughts on Jesus, the Mass, Birds, Bees, and so much more. What would be a good alternative name for Jesus? What does a honeybee at Mass have to tell us about Christ? What is, after all, the real point of saying prayers when someone is suffering?

Through the good and the bad, the serious and the hilarious, Doyle finds just the right story and just the right words to help us better understand life and love—and to help us see our faith in a whole new light.

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Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies

 In this spirited collection of essays, Brian Doyle employs his wit, wisdom, and gusto for life as he shares with readers his thoughts on Jesus, the Mass, Birds, Bees, and so much more. What would be a good alternative name for Jesus? What does a honeybee at Mass have to tell us about Christ? What is, after all, the real point of saying prayers when someone is suffering?

Through the good and the bad, the serious and the hilarious, Doyle finds just the right story and just the right words to help us better understand life and love—and to help us see our faith in a whole new light.

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Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies

Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies

by Brian Doyle
Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies

Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies

by Brian Doyle

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 In this spirited collection of essays, Brian Doyle employs his wit, wisdom, and gusto for life as he shares with readers his thoughts on Jesus, the Mass, Birds, Bees, and so much more. What would be a good alternative name for Jesus? What does a honeybee at Mass have to tell us about Christ? What is, after all, the real point of saying prayers when someone is suffering?

Through the good and the bad, the serious and the hilarious, Doyle finds just the right story and just the right words to help us better understand life and love—and to help us see our faith in a whole new light.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780829439045
Publisher: Loyola Press
Publication date: 10/01/2013
Edition description: First Edition, New Edition, 10th Anniversary Ed.
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 213,780
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author


Brian Doyle edits Portland Magazine at the University of Portland in Oregon, called “the best spiritual magazine in the country” by Annie Dillard. Doyle is also the author of 13 books of essays, fiction, and poetry; among the honors for his work are the Christopher Medal and a Catholic Press Association Book Award. He lives with his family in Portland.

Table of Contents

Part One: I Believe
Chapter 1 Room Eight
Chapter 2 Joey's Doll's Other Arm
Chapter 3 The Primary Wish of Your Creator Is Love, Is That Not So?
Chapter 4 Grace Notes
Chapter 5 Washed Clean
Part Two: Yesuah ben Joseph
Chapter 6 Joe's Boy
Chapter 7 JC1654
Chapter 8 Mister Louie
Chapter 9 Christ's Elbows
Chapter 10 A Thin Ragged Man
Part Three: A Catholic Being
Chapter 11 Credo
Chapter 12 Altar Boy
Chapter 13 Father, Son, Spirit Holy
Chapter 14 The Mass Is a Genius
Chapter 15 A Sunday, in October, under a Flight of Geese
Part Four: Revelations & Epiphanies
Chapter 16 Eating Dirt
Chapter 17 The Anchoviad
Chapter 18 Diary: Summer
Chapter 19 Reading the Birds
Chapter 20 Glory Bee
Chapter 21 Crushing a Car
Chapter 22 The Sudden Flight of Mrs. Wilhemina Kettell, in Summer
Part Five: Grace under Duress
Chapter 23 Leap
Chapter 24 Kaddish
Chapter 25 His Sweet Weight
Chapter 26 Last Supper
Chapter 27 A Prayer for Pete
Chapter 28 Two Hearts
Chapter 29 In the Country of Fear
Chapter 30 With His Hat on His Head
Part Six: Children Are Verbs
Chapter 31 The Meteorites
Chapter 32 Two on Two
Chapter 33 The Death of Rascal
Chapter 34 Weal
Chapter 35 Making the Bed
Chapter 36 Pop Art
Chapter 37 The Measure of Mystery
Chapter 38 Yes
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