The Poetry of Faith: Sermons Preached in a Southern Church

The ministry of the Rev. Stephen F. Dill was forged in the turbulent civil rights years when he stood for social justice and spoke against racial segregation. In this collection of sermons--many from his 20 years as pastor of Dauphin Way United Methodist Church in Mobile, Alabama--Dill reflects on the implications of his faith for the lives of individuals and for the life of the world. Robin Wilson, one of Dill's successors at Dauphin Way, praises "the bold humility" of his message, and author Frye Gaillard, in the book's introduction, offers this description of Dill and his sermons: "Almost inevitably, the poetry of his preaching caught the quick of my imagination and quietly, inevitably made me think." Appropriately, the publication of The Poetry of Faith coincides with the 100th anniversary of Dauphin Way. But these challenging and reassuring sermons resonate far beyond those walls. As Methodist educator Gorman Houston put it, this is the Christian faith at its finest, for Stephen Dill has always been "one of those ministers ... able to see the church as it should be and not as it was."

Author: Stephen F. Dill
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 05/01/2013
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9781603062787

About the Author
Dill, Stephen F.: - Stephen F. Dill is retired after forty years of service as a United Methodist minister. He is pastor emeritus of Dauphin Way United Methodist Church in Mobile, Alabama, and director emeritus of the J. L. Bedsole Scholars Program. He holds BA and MA degrees from Emory University and in 1975 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama.Gaillard, Frye: - Frye Gaillard is a writer in residence at the University of South Alabama and award-winning author of more than 20 books, including Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music, The Quilt: And the Poetry of Alabama Music, Journey to the Wilderness: War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters, The Books That Mattered: A Reader's Memoir, Go South to Freedom, and A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope and Innocence Lost, all published by NewSouth Books. He is the winner of the Lillian Smith Award, the Clarence Cason Award for Non-Fiction, the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year Award, and the 2016 Eugene Current-Garcia Award For Distinction in Literary Scholarship.

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