How to Buy My Books:
If you live near me (somewhere around the Nashville area) you can send me an email (see contact page), and we can work out a place and time for me to deliver the book.
Other than that, the easiest way to get a signed copy is to order one here through PayPal. You can also order directly from any of my publishers, and I'll be happy to sign those. If you order through PayPal, you can click on Add Special Instructions to Seller to tell me whom I should inscribe the book to. Also, you do not need a PayPal account, as they have a link to pay via credit card. If you have any problems with PayPal, please send me an email via the contact page.
Additionally, you can also order some of them from your local independent bookstore, which you can find by going to IndieBound.
If you insist on using a large chain to order it, go to Amazon. I appreciate your buying the book, of course, but at least think about using another avenue. Thanks.
If you live near me (somewhere around the Nashville area) you can send me an email (see contact page), and we can work out a place and time for me to deliver the book.
Other than that, the easiest way to get a signed copy is to order one here through PayPal. You can also order directly from any of my publishers, and I'll be happy to sign those. If you order through PayPal, you can click on Add Special Instructions to Seller to tell me whom I should inscribe the book to. Also, you do not need a PayPal account, as they have a link to pay via credit card. If you have any problems with PayPal, please send me an email via the contact page.
Additionally, you can also order some of them from your local independent bookstore, which you can find by going to IndieBound.
If you insist on using a large chain to order it, go to Amazon. I appreciate your buying the book, of course, but at least think about using another avenue. Thanks.
People have used the Bible for a variety of purposes over the course of the past two thousand years; unfortunately, many of those uses have reinforced power structures and systems that oppress and dominate those without privilege. Worst of all, people have used the Bible as a means to divide humanity into those who are worthy of salvation and those who are not. However, if we look at the lectionary readings, especially the gospels, we can see that God actively seeks to undercut and subvert systems of power, and God calls Christians to do the same. Through an examination of Jesus’s teachings, with support from a wide variety of other parts of the Bible, we can see that ideas of social justice and true liberation run throughout God’s message to humanity. Rather than focusing on who gets into heaven and who doesn’t, Jesus seeks to proclaim God’s love for all humanity. By reading the Bible this way and attempting to live up to Jesus’s call, we can seek to bring the kingdom to our world, as it is in heaven.
You can read sample chapters of the book here. You can order the book directly from Wipf and Stock. You can order directly from me via PayPal below: |
Teachers at all levels today are often portrayed in a negative light, as they are often on the news for cheating scandals or improper behavior, or they are misrepresented as people who pursued teaching as a way to have summer months off. Brown counters that view by showing these teachers as people who devoted their lives to students in an attempt not only to teach them a particular subject, but to affect their lives.
Whenever we talk about teacher education, we talk about skills teachers will need. We even lay out rubrics to evaluate teachers, assuming all good teaching fits in the same categories. Teaching is as much an art as it is a skill, though, and great teachers find ways to teach that spring forth from who they are rather than trying to make their teaching fit a particular set of objectives. By using a wide variety of teachers, Brown illustrates the wide variety of ways teachers have of connecting with their students. You can order the book via my PayPal account here. You can also buy the book at Amazon. |
James Scruton, Mary B. Holmes Professor of Literature at Bethel University, writes about Liturgical Calendar: Poems, "Kevin Brown's Liturgical Calendar marks its own stations, finds its own occasions for praise. Though holy days receive their due, these are poems of ordinary time, of the losses and miracles in any life, celebrating small gifts of the moment and sanctifying 'the ash/of our hands/and hearts.'"
You can also buy the book directly from Wipf and Stock. |
In selecting A Lexicon of Lost Words for the 2013 Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, the editors wrote, "Kevin Brown in his book, A Lexicon of Lost Words, is a brave soul taking on the herculean task of making poems about forgotten or lost words, and the reader is all the better for this education." |
Here's what the judge of the chapbook competition said about this manuscript: "Part prayer, part wrestling match with the past, Kevin Brown's Holy Days is a guided tour of what might pass for the sacred. But it is not merely a sugar-coated nostalgia. Face to face with the unknown, these poems give us a hard, razor sharp look at what we are--ultimately human, capable of triumph or failure, of resilence in the face of it all." -- Andrei Guruianu SOLD OUT |
Like many young Christians, Kevin Brown had what he believed to be a strong faith, one that provided answers to all the questions he had and might encounter. He even attended a Christian college and considered becoming a youth minister. While there, though, he began having doubts about his faith, asking questions that came from discussions both in and out of the classroom, questions he couldn’t find answers to. When the church told him he shouldn’t be asking those questions, he left the church and his faith behind. He kept asking questions, though, and kept looking for a faith that would allow him to have questions and doubts, yet still believe. What he found may offer an answer to the religious divide in our society, one that separates Evangelical from progressive Christians, one that separates sacred from secular. In this memoir, Brown describes his spiritual journey from his first faith to the loss of faith to the way he found back to a Christianity where he can ask those questions, a different way than he knew before. He still has questions and doubts, but he also has faith, in spite of and because of those questions and doubts.
You can buy this book directly from the publisher, Wipf and Stock, or you can order the Kindle version from Amazon (where you can also preview the book).
|
The Virgin Mary. Joseph. Peter. Mary Magdalene. Judas Iscariot. Pontius Pilate. Jesus. In They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels, Kevin Brown examines how Nikos Kazantzakis, Anthony Burgess, Norman Mailer, José Saramago, and Nino Ricci portray each of the major figures from the gospel stories against the backdrop of biblical and legendary lore. The result is a many-textured tapestry of insight and reflection in which Mary encourages her son to lead a normal life; Peter is coarse and rash, loyal and treacherous; Judas might well have understandable motives; and Jesus struggles with the temptations of love and power, revealing a divinity and a humanity vying for expression. By retelling stories people think they know, these five authors challenge their readers to confront assumptions and encourage all of us to ask ourselves why we believe or don’t believe what we might well have long held to be true. SOLD OUT |
Here's what Christine Butterworth-McDermott, Editor of REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters said about this chapbook: "The artful poems of Abecedarium poignantly explore how language defines us. What small phrases lead us to mediation and contemplation? Why do we remain silent during the most important moments of intimate relationships? The struggle to understand the alphabet of our daily life is richly detailed in Kevin Brown’s memorable imagery. These hard-hitting observations of the deep longing for connection, the success and failure of our words, last long after the collection is closed." You can also buy the book directly from the publisher, Finishing Line Press. |
"Kevin Brown's Exit Lines: Poems doesn't close the door behind you in terms of faith, rather it opens that door widely. Brown is a poet who truly confronts the ordinary and examines the experience with a surgeon's knife, cutting away the dross until we arrive at the bones of the extraordinary. He seems intent on following William Carlos Williams dictum: 'No ideas but the thing itself.' His gift is turning the reader's attention inward, and making him or her take a second and more revealing look." -- Herbert Woodward Martin, Poet-in-Residence at the University of Dayton and author of The Log of the Vigilante You can also buy the book from the publisher Plain View Press.
|