Holy Imaginations: Seven Stories in the White Space of Scripture
Between the words of Scripture lies a silence-an open, holy space where the story still breathes.
What happened in that silence? What did they see, feel, or say when the page went quiet?
In Holy Imaginations, Episcopal priest The Rev. Curt Norman enters that "white space" between the verses, offering seven meditative stories shaped by the ancient practice of midrash-sacred imagination that listens where the text leaves room.
Through these retellings, familiar figures step out of stained glass and into living color:
Joseph, who trusted a mystery he couldn't explain.
John the Baptist, whose certainty crumbled into faith.
A woman in Capernaum, lifted from fever into freedom.
Malchus, healed by the one he came to arrest.
A Roman soldier, who saw blood and water flow from mercy itself.
Simon of Cyrene and his family, whose home became a house of grace.
Saul of Tarsus, whose blindness gave birth to sight.
Drawing on Scripture and the wisdom of theologians like Pope Benedict XVI, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Wilda Gafney, Fleming Rutledge, and Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, Norman invites readers to experience the Gospel not as history, but as encounter.
Each story becomes a doorway into the mystery of grace-the place where God meets us not only in the certainties of Scripture, but in its questions, silences, and wonder.
Perfect for Lent or anytime your soul longs to see the Gospel again with new eyes, Holy Imaginations is a journey into the sacred space between ink and breath-where faith learns to listen, and imagination becomes devotion.
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