Paraclete Press Blog

It’s almost Derby Day! Meet the author of Horses Speak of God, Laurie Brock, and her inspiration — an American Saddlebred named Nina. Learn more about Horses Speak of God here. 

April 30, 2018 —Just in time for Derby Day, Episcopal priest Laurie Brock of Lexington, Kentucky releases Horses Speak of God: How Horses Can Teach Us to Listen and Be Transformed (Paraclete Press • ISBN 978-1-61261-929-3 • 146 pp • … Continue reading →

For Immediate Release February 21, 2018  On April 4, 2018 Paraclete Press will release Billy Graham: An Ordinary Man and His Extraordinary God (ISBN 978-1640600874 / Hardcover / $21.99) by Lon Allison, with a foreword by Dr. Leighton Ford and Jean Graham Ford (Billy’s … Continue reading →

Paraclete Press announced Tuesday, January 23, that we are accelerating the publication date of The Pope’s Cat by Jon M. Sweeney, illustrated by Roy DeLeon. Originally announced to publish on March 13, the on-sale date is now March 1. “We are seeing great demand … Continue reading →

This review for Still Pilgrim was published in  Adanna, Issue 7, 2017. Maryanne Hannan To a world where stillness is elusive, the notion of pilgrimage quaint, and paradox an intellectual stretch, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell serves up her latest collection, Still Pilgrim: … Continue reading →

Jennifer Wallace’s Almost Entirely was featured in ImageUpdate. Click here for the full roundup. Referring to her new poetry collection, Jennifer Wallace remarks, “I like the sense of ‘entirely’ modified by ‘almost’…That’s my sense of life in this world.” These … Continue reading →

An Excerpt From Bruised and Wounded by Ronald Rolheiser Some years ago, some other friends of mine lost a daughter to suicide. She was in her early twenties and had a history of clinical depression. An initial attempt at suicide failed. … Continue reading →

Today as the world remembers the tragedy at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut, Paraclete Press is privileged to release The Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World by mother and son writing team, Sophfronia Scott and … Continue reading →

“My life is not this steep hour in which You see me hurrying so.” Many of us know could claim these lines, taken from one of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poems, as a true confession, particularly in Advent.  For while we … Continue reading →