Christian Book Award Finalist
But God speaks through wombs,
birthing prophetic utterances. . . .
Enough of this unbelieving religion
that masquerades as faith.
Divine favor is placed on what we
have disgraced.
In God Speaks Through Wombs, Drew Jackson explores the first eight chapters of Luke's Gospel in a new poetic register. These are declarative poems, faithfully proclaiming the gospel story in all its liberative power. Here the gospel is the ‘fresh words / that speak of / things impossible.’
From the Magnificat (‘That girl can sing! . . . She has a voice / That can shatter shackles’) to the baptism of Christ (‘I stepped in / Committing insurrection’), this collection helps us hear the hum of deliverance—against all hope—that's been in the gospel all along.
Table of Content
Foreword by Jon Batiste
Introduction
I. Openings
Theophilus (Lover of God)
God Speaks Through Wombs
The Spirit of Elijah
Nazareth
Theotokos (God-Bearer)
Say His Name
Leap!
That Girl Can Sing!
He’s Not Like His Father
Faith Opens Mouths
II. Revelations
In Those (These) Days
O Little Town
Where Lambs Feed
Census Day
Sōtēr
Treasures
Ceremonies and Rituals
Provisions
We Gon’ Be Alright
Gray Heads
As Children Do
III. Immersions
Alert to the Times
Waters of Insurrection
Tradition
Down By the Riverside
Immersion
Good Trouble
The Waters of My Weeping
All In
I Am Son
Of Earth and Sky
IV. Temptations
Desert of Desire
Prove It
Views
Shuckin’ and Jivin’
An Opportune Time (Out in these Streets)
The Accent of Home
4×100 (My Leg of the Race)
The Anointing
Back Pew Talk
Euangelion (From Below)
Teaching Time
Today
Challenge
Apparently
A Rude Awakening
On the Edge of Things
Possessed
Authority and Power
The Homes of My Friends
N’em
Desert Places
Vocatio
V. Rolling Deep
Gennesaret
Blue Collar
Jackpot
Few and Far Between
Vocation: Redefined
What Love Touches
Withdraw
Crowded Out
The Crew
Who Can Forgive
Rise Up, My People
Internal Dialogue at a Tax Booth
Follow Me
Dinner Party
Around Tables
Wineskins
VI. On the Plain
Fields of Wheat
Sabbath
Same Energy
A Grand Unfolding
Nicknames
Hands Full of Heaven
Late Night Commercials
Fermented Lament
Haters
Enemy Love
Turning Cheeks
Grade School Ethics
Logs and Splinters
Our Good Tree
Wise Words from Mom
VII. Life Lessons
I Struggle with the Word Deserves
Under the Rubble
Youth Mortality
Mothers Like Us
Magic Words of Spring
From Behind Bars
G.O.A.T. Status
Demonized
When They Invited Me for Dinner
Alabaster
Three Kinds of Sinners
I Screen Calls
VIII. Parables and Other Things
And Many Others
The Power of Parable
Of Seeds and Soil
Mysteries
My Light
Family
The Raging Sea
Legion
Testify
Talitha
Never Make Yourself Small
To Be A Realist
In the Room
Eat Your Fill
About the author
Drew Jackson is the founding pastor of Hope East Village in New York City. He is also the author of the poetry collection God Speaks Through Wombs. He and his wife have twin daughters and live in Lower Manhattan.
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