Uncollected Pieces
by Frederick Buechner
Recommended by Russell Moore
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A Room Called Remember reads like a small library of reflective sermons, essays, and autobiographical fragments. The pleasure is Buechner's language—lyrical, conversational, often metaphoric—and his knack for turning memory into theological observation. Best used as quiet reading that rewards lingering over passages rather than cover-to-cover consumption. Limitation: the book shifts between sermon, lecture, and memoir in ways that can feel meandering; readers looking for structured argument or hands-on direction may find it anecdote-heavy and occasionally sentimental.
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A Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner's finest writings on faith, love, and the power of words in the form of essays, addresses, and sermons. Here Buechner explores autobiography as theology, offers exhilarating reflections on biblical passages, and leads us into the "room called Remember," that "still room within us all where the...
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