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• Published: October 2003
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Never
Far from Home
Stories From the Radio Pulpit
Carl Scovel
Richard Higgins, Editor
“My
hope is that these fragments will move readers to open their
eyes to the world as it is —with all its beauty, cruelty,
and mystery— and there see God with the eyes of a newly
awakened faith.”
— Carl Scovel
“Despite
our repeated failures, our escapes, and our human tendency to
become lost, we are unable to flee God's love.”—from
the Introduction. The 100 short essays collected here were originally
5-minute radio sermons broadcast between 1979 and 1999 to rapt
Sunday morning audiences on WCRB, a classical radio station
near Boston. The sermons address a wide range of issues, including
blizzards, guns, poetry, marathons, last words and impossible
things before breakfast. Scovel reviews the lives and works
of poets, mystics, composers, saints and charlatans alike. Although
these sermons vary in compelling topics, Scovel’s storytelling
focuses on one centralized theme?the ways in which God’s
presence may be discerned in our lives and in nature.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Widely renowned for his preaching, Carl Scovel was pastor for
more than 45 years, 32 of them at King’s Chapel, the historic
Unitarian Universalist church on Tremont Street in downtown
Boston. Now retired, Scovel lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts,
with his wife.
ABOUT
THE EDITOR
Richard Higgins is a writer and editor who has known Scovel
for years. A former reporter for The Boston Globe,
his articles have appeared in the Christian Century, The
Atlantic Monthly, and other publications. He has contributed
commentary to National Public Radio. Higgins is a graduate of
Harvard Divinity School and a member of the First Parish Church
in Concord, Massachusetts.
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