Wanton Gospeller Press features the elegant work of author and artist Jan L. Richardson, who designs and handbinds each book. In The Luminous Word, the acclaimed debut offering from Wanton Gospeller Press, Richardson offers an artful invitation into the mysteries of the seasons of Advent and Christmas. Includes seven charcoal drawings by the author.

The Luminous Word: Entering the Mysteries of Advent and Christmas

Jan L. Richardson

Wanton Gospeller Press

Wanton Gospeller Press features the distinctive work of author and artist Jan L. Richardson, who designs and handbinds each book. With Garden of Hollows, Richardson offers an elegant reflection on the stories and symbols of Lent and Easter. As she contemplates her life in the light and shadows of these stories, Richardson illumines the holy to be found in the hollows of this sacred season.

Garden of Hollows: Entering the Mysteries of Lent and Easter

Wanton Gospeller Press features the distinctive work of author and artist Jan L. Richardson, who designs and handbinds each book. In the Middle Ages, scribes and artists created richly illustrated manuscripts that invited the reader into a pilgrimage through the bizarre and beautiful book of Revelation.  Inspired by these illuminated manuscripts, Richardson began an artful apocalyptic pilgrimage of her own. The drawings that she created along the way, and the reflections that accompany them, invite the reader into a thoughtful journey through one of the most hopeful, imaginative, and powerful books of the Bible. The Intimate Apocalypse includes twelve charcoal drawings by the author.

The Intimate Apocalypse: Notes on a Pilgrimage into Revelation

New release of a popular favorite! As so many have found, this beloved companion for the season of Advent and Christmas is a treasure to return to year after year. Jan Richardson's original artwork, reflections, poetry, and prayers draw the reader into the quiet spaces of an often-frenzied season. Beautifully designed with color artwork throughout, Night Visions beckons us to encounter the God who dwells in darkness as well as in daylight.

Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas

Religion & Spirituality

Jan Richardson

Christian Books & Bibles

In Wisdom's Path: Discovering the Sacred in Every Season

This perennial favorite is now available in a beautiful hardcover edition! Known for her distinctive intertwining of word and image, artist and author Jan Richardson (Night Visions, In the Sanctuary of Women) returns to the rhythms of the sacred year, offering a compelling book of reflections, prayers, poetry, and art that invites us to notice the presence of God in each season. From the "Cave of the Heart" in Advent through the "Daily Way" of Ordinary Time, In Wisdom's Path serves as a companion in our search for the sacred. Richardson's evocative full-color artwork appears throughout.

"Within the struggle, joy, pain, and delight that attend our life, there is an invisible circle of grace that enfolds and encompasses us in every moment. Blessings help us to perceive this circle of grace, to find our place of belonging within it, and to receive the strength the circle holds for us." -from the Introduction Beginning in Advent and moving through the sacred seasons of the Christian year, Circle of Grace offers Jan's distinctive and poetic blessings that illuminate the treasures each season offers to us.

Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons

Richardson, Jan

When Jan Richardson unexpectedly lost her husband and creative partner, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles, she did what she had long known how to do: she wrote blessings. These were no sugar-coated blessings. They minimized none of the pain and bewilderment that came in the wake of a wrenching death. With these blessings, Jan entered, instead, into the depths of the shock, anger, and sorrow. From those depths, she has brought forth words that, with heartbreaking honesty, offer surprising comfort and stunning grace. Those who know loss will find kinship among these pages. In these blessings that move through the anguish of rending into the unexpected shelters of solace and hope, there shimmers a light that helps us see we do not walk alone. From her own path of grief, Jan offers a luminous, unforgettable gift that invites us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the presence of love that, as she writes, is "sorrow's most lasting cure."

The Cure for Sorrow

About the Author\nKnown for such popular books as The Cure for Sorrow, In the Sanctuary of Women, and Night Visions, Jan Richardson is an artist, writer, and ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. She serves as director of The Wellspring Studio, LLC, and makes her home in Florida.\nFrom the author of The Cure for Sorrow, a luminous book about the endurance of love in the presence of grief. 
"Who am I, when the person who saw and knew me best in all the world is gone from this world?" Jan Richardson's question lies at the heart of Sparrow, a book that began as notes written to her husband, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles, while keeping vigil for him in the hospital after a disastrous surgery just a few years into their marriage. 
Six months after Garrison's death, Jan returned to those notes and began to write again. The pages grew into an unexpected conversation as she worked to make a new life. Here, Jan invites us into that conversation. She resists simple answers for deepest sorrow, entering instead into the raw complexities of grief, which she calls "the least linear thing I know." 
In Jan's distinctive spare and elegant style, Sparrow traces a path through the first few years after her loss, articulating not only the ache of grief but also the strange graces and stubborn hope that live within its landscape.

Sparrow: A Book of Life and Death and Life

Self-Help

Death & Grief

When Jan Richardson unexpectedly lost her husband and creative partner, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles, she did what she had long known how to do: she wrote blessings.\nThese were no sugar-coated blessings. They minimized none of the pain and bewilderment that came in the wake of a wrenching death. With these blessings, Jan entered, instead, into the depths of the shock, anger, and sorrow. From those depths, she has brought forth words that, with heartbreaking honesty, offer surprising comfort and stunning grace.\nThose who know loss will find kinship among these pages. In these blessings that move through the anguish of rending into the unexpected shelters of solace and hope, there shimmers a light that helps us see we do not walk alone.\nFrom her own path of grief, Jan offers a luminous, unforgettable gift that invites us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the presence of love that, as she writes, is "sorrow's most lasting cure."

The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief

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