Journey
Unfortunately, this book is currently out of print. Please contact the author directly at lindadinijenkins@gmail.com for more information about Journey or scheduling Linda for an event or workshop around spiritual writing topics.
"Journey of a Returning Christian: Writing into God"
When Tim and I first moved to Boston in 1991, we looked for a church community. Our pastor in Burlington, Vermont, where we got married, told us about this fantastic UCC Church on the corner of Boylston and Dartmouth Streets: Old South Church. If you’re ever watched the Boston Marathon, that’s the big church at the finish line. After a few weeks attending services, we decided to stay. I meekly walked into a writing group one evening called “Writing Into God,” which blew me away. It was a small group composed of people of all ages who enjoyed writing and sharing.
That first night, the organizer of the group handed out a copy of an old newspaper article he had found in his late father’s Bible, calling out what were at that time (things change) “The top 25 stories of the Bible.” He invited us to have a look and see if we wanted to respond to any of them in writing. Prose, poetry, dialogue . . . however the spirit moved us, so to speak.
It set me on a journey of introspection, study, questioning, and writing that ultimately led to a Religion & the Arts Master’s Program at Andover Newton Theological Seminary. Rereading these old stories and approaching them from a more modern point of view was a breath of fresh air for both me and the group members in this historically progressive and rabble-rousing church, and I’m very proud of what was accomplished there.
In The Press
Ed.
Chalice Press on Journey of a Returning Christian
"Thoughtful, heartfelt reflections in prose and verse look with new eyes at familiar Bible stories, and autobiographical essays share the struggles and the triumphs of her journey. . . Here is a book that will make both returning Christians and those who never left look at faith in remarkable new ways."
Unfortunately, this book is currently out of print. Please contact the author directly at lindadinijenkins@gmail.com for more information about Journey or scheduling Linda for an event or workshop around spiritual writing topics.
Who were they, this hybrid family, half-Italian, half-God-knows-what? Who was she? Here, in chapter and verse, is the tale of an Italian-American girl who started out in the suburbs of New York City and writes her way to understanding herself, her family and her place in the world. You don’t have to be Italian to relate–we've all felt like a fraud, dealt with misogyny, regret, and prejudice.
What constitutes travel? Two weeks in a foreign city or a year of Sunday drives? Returning to the places you love or stopping by the side of the road to jump into a unfamiliar creek? Going with your significant other or with a group of acquaintances who become fast friends during the experience? Author Linda Jenkins has done it all in her 17-year marriage to Tim, several years her junior and on a wavelength all his own.
How Way Leads on to Way is a small book of poems about place that explores what it means to be lost and found and how we can be serial survivors in new places. Embracing large American cities and rural Italian landscapes, this is a kind of cautious love song about adaptation, regret, desire, and the continuous search to find one’s way in the world, both geographically and emotionally.
