Never Far from Home: Stories from the Radio Pulpit

By Carl Scovel

Book Overview

From the introduction:

Despite our repeated failures, our escapes, and our human tendency to become lost, we are unable to flee God's love.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558964592
• ISBN13: 9781558964594
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Skinner House Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

The Power of Love

This is a collection of wonderful short reads. Quirky stories by a proper Bostonian in the best sense of the term. Written by a believer whose observations connect, magnify and radiate.

Thought provoking & wonderful essays

This book is a collection of Carl Scovel's radio sermons, and it is wonderful. Each essay is roughly 2 to 3 pages, and each is a treasure. I have carried the book in my briefcase on the train for the past month and read a few sermons every day. It is a truly great book. I guess the greatest testimony is that I bought an additional five copies and gave them as Christmas presents. One essay describes a Christmas service in England that is both funny and thought provoking-I read it to my family on Christmas Eve.