“Paul Revenson loves to share the Gospel in music and poetry, and he does it with passion and conviction. You will find spiritual comfort and encouragement here.” —David Epstein, Senior Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, N.Y.C. . “Paul Revenson’s poems are Biblically based and quite imaginative. They brim with truth and common sense, plus interesting rhymes. They are a great devotional source.” —Frank Boggs, First recording vocal artist, Word Records. Smyrna, Ga. “The poet has the uncanny talent to express the Christian worldview in both classical and contemporary flair. Each poem will speak to your heart and mind, and give you a deeper understanding of what it means to be a ‘child of God’.” —Brenda Milliner—N.Y.C. urban missionary.

The Five Quintets is a mammoth poetic adventure undertaken by the celebrated poet Micheal O’Siadhail, attempting nothing less than an exploration of the predicaments of Western modernity. Drawing on inspiration from T S Eliot’s Four Quartets, The Five Quintets brings the premise of Dante’s Divine Comedy into the current day.

"Jewish texts and traditions. An expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half between Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced sixteen different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Buber and Rosenzweig famously critiqued bourgeois German Judaism as a craven attempt to establish social respectability to facilitate Jews' entry into the middle class through a vapid, domesticated account of Judaism. Exploring Bible translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hirsch, I argue that each sought to ground a "reformation" of Judaism along bourgeois lines, which involved aligning Judaism with a Protestant concept of religion. They did so because they saw in bourgeois values the best means to serve God and the authentic actualization of Jewish tradition. Through their learned, creative Bible translations, Mendelssohn, Zunz, and Hirsch presented distinct visions of middle-class Judaism that affirmed Jewish nationhood while lighting the path to a purposeful, emotionally rich, spiritual life grounded in ethical responsibility"--

My mother, Ida Laura Ann Beebe, was a very devout Christian for the last eighteen years of her life. After she rededicated her life to Jesus, she read her Bible every day and wrote a lot of poems. Her love for Jesus inspired her to write these poems, and I'm sure you will agree as you read them, that her love is reflected in them and that you will be inspired to feel that love too and to give your heart to Jesus!