Bøger af Jack Perkins

Here are touching and tender poems set down by a man who believes in the Creator behind all creation and is determined to pass the word. These verses, however, are not preachments but gentle, sometimes ironic, reflections on many aspects of the lives of us all.

Ranging the world, Perkins explores nature not as a naturalist but as a seeker. Seeking understanding, seeking greater meaning . . . Ultimately, always, seeking God. Come with him to a small island to consider the value of living small lives. Or, partake in a modern day search for Moby Dick. Watch a brutal seal slaughter and force yourself to understand why it had to be. Pet a whale, coddle a trembling dolphin, bury your face in the only flowers that have a color named after them. Agree with or argue an impassioned rant against big cities. Debate Thoreau; realize that what he said was often not at all what he did. Perch atop a glacial erratic and confess that you too are one. Puzzle why a priest would be in the business of selling animal penis bones. Remember the man whose award-winning, audience-winning TV show was nothing but him before a blackboard talking God. Let Hopi Indians lead you down into their most sacred space at the oldest settlement in America. Seek out the unlikely lifeform that is likely the oldest extant on our continent. Consider two Harry Trumans and suffer their heroic losses. Meet the man who created the Tufted Guzzard and the Stuffed Ormie and was the greatest nature writer readers never thought as a nature writer. Attend a Camp for Overprivileged Kids for whom Stephen King wasn't scary enough. Learn the perils of life at minus 55 degrees. Stare down the most dangerous beast in our land, eye to eye. Then become him. Do a worldwide telecast of an event that terrorizes natives while thrilling scientists. Watch a hurricane destroy your house by a dam site. Walk miles along a beach of death, not knowing why. Walk then a beach of erupting life, reveling in birth. Live through the mind-numbing tremors of an historic earthquake. Witness a courtroom case where the defendant on trial is The Dark. Meet a girl too young to be so old, too beautiful to be so cursed. A passing acquaintance who could never be anything more. And, finally, an Epigram on Epitaphs. May all this seeking and consequent finding -- voiced in both present and past, prose and poetry -- carry a reader ever closer to Ultimate Answers. (And, along the way, great enjoyment.)

GOD'S BRIDGE: A Novel, by Jack Perkins From Emmy Award-winning journalist and author Jack Perkins comes a lyrical novel about the value of family, friends, and history, and the two loves of one man's life - God and wife. How can an iron truss bridge, valiantly built generations ago by entrepreneurial American builders, bring together a young man and the young woman who will bring him to the love of God and a life together? In his new novel, God's Bridge, Perkins has created a searching, intense main character who travels a broad canvas of our country's events, from the Civil Rights movement to Vietnam, from the fevered bustle of New York City to a bucolic stone house by the small but mighty rural bridge where he heals and finds his faith in the love of friends and his future wife and through them, the life-saving words of The Bible. Over a bridge of time, from a deadly church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama to a healing gathering months later in a Birmingham stadium filled with the followers of Billy Graham, the protagonist is continuously directed in almost mysterious ways-by the kindness of strangers and colleagues, believers and non-believers- towards the ancestral home near a family-owned bridge over the Delaware River (which still exists in real life today) and a father and daughter whose land near that bridge was swallowed up by foolish government intervention. Through a delicate courtship and the gift of a bible, our lovers establish a lifelong commitment to each other and to the word of God.

Perkins is a psalmist for our times, blessed with an eye that can see life in heaven's light. - Rev. James McWhinnie In his latest collection of poetry, Perkins frolics in shallows and dives the depths. Some of his poems are prayerful, some playful, some both. He is a man of faith and it shows. He says "the supposed believer who doesn't admit it, isn't." Perkins not only admits it but in this book, loudly and poetically proclaims it. Some of the poems here are love letters to his beloved wife and departed friends, some confessions of his own personal failings, but mostly the proclamations are universal, directed to us all. Many ask questions which are important though too often by others not even asked let alone answered. His dear friend, the late Rev. Fred B. Craddock wrote of Perkins's work: "Jack's mastery of the English language provides pleasure aplenty. He is on to something; you can sense it. He moves past the Apparent to the Truth to God. About this journey he is passionate but as a poet he must keep his passion on a leash, out of respect for the reader who needs room to make his or her own journey. The poet knows that truth comes suggestively not dogmatically." Perkins has authored books over years of many styles - novels, memoir, essays, photography but none more personally convicted than the collections of his poetry. Especially this latest: HomeWords.

For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass.Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins left the world of broadcasting and moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine. This isolated home they came to call Moosewood was the setting for and the catalyst to Jack and Mary Jo's spiritual awakening. For thirteen years they endured (and learned to enjoy) snowbound winters, shuttling supplies from the mainland, testing themselves and the strength of their marriage, and discovering the rewards and glories of a close-to-nature life. Which is to say, the rewards and glories of a close-to-God life. As far as the public was aware, Jack Perkins had vanished. In fact, he was doing research; not, for a change, about the unknown private life of a movie star or celebrated artist, but about the unknown sides of himself.Jack's personal account in Finding Moosewood, Finding God tells a relatable story of one man drawn to cast off a shallow and unsatisfying lifestyle in order to seek out a deeper, more meaningful and spiritual life. Within the course of explaining how their lives were blessedly transformed especially during the cycle of their first year of island living, Jack draws in stories from his long career in an impressionistic, associative way that invites the reader to connect the dots. One finds-as he finally did-that there'd been many hints along the way of a greater plan at work. This rich memoir also contains a photo insert.

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