{"product_id":"all-i-really-want-readings-for-a-modern-christmas-9781426790171","title":"All I Really Want: Readings for a Modern Christmas","description":"Sometimes the happiest and holiest time of the year is also the hardest for people to enjoy. These daily readings offer the skeptic, the over-committed the opportunity to make room-perhaps just enough room for God to show up. The weeks leading up to Christmas can spark a strong spiritual longing for more. Although it may never be articulated, we sense beneath those longings is a yearning for an experience of God. These brief writings address the challenges and realities of the season and include a simple action, ritual or meditation designed to gently steer the reader toward the deeper meaning that underlies the season. Smart, witty, edgy--and always hopeful--readings by Quinn Caldwell include a brief prayer for each morning and evening during the entire Christmas season. This book takes seriously the modern person's hunger for meaning and import in a season that feels increasingly frivolous. Includes a calendar with one easy task to do each day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaldwell, Quinn G.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Quinn Caldwell is minister at Plymouth Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Syracuse, NY. Caldwell is well-known in the wider United Church of Christ (UCC) as a member of the UCC Stillspeaking Writers Group and an author for the Stillspeaking Daily Devotionals. He is a former associate minister at Old South Church in Boston and since January has led the Under-40 Writers Group for the UCC website s Feed Your Spirit section on the denomination s global reach. Caldwell graduated from Cornell with a BS in natural resources in 1999, and received his master s in divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 2003.","brand":"Abingdon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544468754706,"sku":"9781426790171","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_095d1abd-283e-46d1-bf61-93b8a58a7170.jpg?v=1731528660","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-i-really-want-readings-for-a-modern-christmas-9781426790171","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}