Overview

When We Swung from Church Bells is a collection of essays that explore what it means to look at and understand the world through the lens of story. It is also a book that shows how stories connect us to other people, sometimes people we don't think we have anything in common with. Finally, it is a book that subtly proclaims story--more than belief--as a key ingredient for shaping and sustaining our faith.

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""Callie Feyen's book is wonderfully written with humor, insight, compassion, and wonder. It captures her stirring stories that focus light on family life and love. It will stir your own memories and make you grateful to be alive."" --Quentin Schultze, author of Communicating with Grace and Virtue ""Callie displays a masterful sense for siphoning the marrow of moments, whether real or--even truer--fictional. With wit, wisdom, and warmth, her candid observations of her own life 'bearing stories' resound beyond church walls. Not many writers can weave together all the ways we are 'making ourselves believe' through the kaleidoscope of our lived experiences, but Callie does exactly that--settling our spirits with her faith-filled tales."" --Kelsi Folsom, author of Beauty Still Lives Here ""Callie Feyen's When We Swung from Church Bells reminds us how stories from the wonderfully strange country of adolescence take root in our lives. Reading it feels like grace seeping in, like healing. Feyen's voice is not just funny and poignant but faithfully irreverent. She looks into the dark corners for the characters we want to dismiss, from Bellatrix Lestrange to Judas, and makes us see them, and ourselves, anew."" --Howard Schaap, author of Brooding Upon the Waters

Author Information

Callie Rebekah Feyen lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is an adjunct professor of English composition, creative writing, and children's literature at Washtenaw Community College. When We Swung from Church Bells is her third book.

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