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| Neither commentary nor traditional meditations, Eby's Markings
are a spiritual memoir. His musings on 70 episodes or texts in the
Gospel of Mark blend intellectual inquiry with confessional worship.
They meld poignancy, whimsy, grit, doubt, sorrow, and inspiration.
Anyone attending to the care of her or his soul will find nurture here.
Eby's project from the practice of old spiritual disciplines: Bible
Study, meditation, prayer, contemplation, silence, writing. Using the
Gospel of Mark for his own Markings, Eby explored the Gospel through
the grid of his forty years teaching literature at the college level,
reading and writing, listening to music, walking in the orchard and
woods, living in Africa, heeding one wise woman, rearing children,
stumbling towards God. Then, under the influence of a given text and
personal memory, he sat down and wrote, yielding these personal musings
on a spare but elegant Gospel. | |