Book Review: Glory in the Margins

 

Glory in the Margins

Sunday Poems

by Nikki Grimes

Pub Date 28 Sep 2021 

 Paraclete Press,  Iron Pen

 Christian  |  Poetry  |  Religion & Spirituality 

I am reviewing a copy of Glory in the Margins through Paraclete Press, Iron Pen and Netgalley:

If you study the scripture you learn Jesus spent a lot of time with people in the margins. As an African American, Nikki Grimes lives in the margins, and she can tell you that it's a place most of us would rather not be. And yet, she knows there is always glory to be found in the margins because of the Lord’s presence in, and with us.

Nikki Grimes job as Poet Laureate of Grace Brethren Church in Southern California,  is to distill the heart of the weeks sermon into a poem.   She delves  into each week’s chosen scripture, viewing it from her own perspective as Black, as woman, as poet, she’s always a little left of center and looks for the glory found in the margins of text as well as in the margins of life.  She reminds the readers that no one imagines that God might speak through those in the Margins.  

I give Glory in the Margins five out of five SRAMs!

Happy Reading!