Writing in the Margins: Connecting with God on the Pages of Your Bible - Tapa blanda

Bring your world to scripture. Bring scripture to your world. In ink, in living color. No other time-honored spiritual practice is as immediate, raw, and scripturally engaged as writing—responding to God—in the margins of the Bible. From composers like Bach to theologians like Barth, botanists and saints—all have written their thoughts directly in their Bibles. In doing so they engaged their fullest selves with our most significant text, creating a divine conversation that transforms and guides. Writing in the Margins introduces a devotional and scriptural path of engagement that is life-changing. This book inspires a new encounter with “the living Word”—and jump-starts a deep, creative, hands-on approach to reading scripture. As you sit, with pencil, pen, crayon, or marker in hand and Bible in lap, at whatever edges of life you are living within, the invitation is yours. Meet God in the margins. Let God shape your character from the living interaction on the pages of your Bible. “In her lovely and liberating book, Lisa Hickman hands out permission slips to pick up our writing tools and go for it. Lisa encourages us to physically engage the Word of the Living God.” —Sybil MacBeth, author of Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God “One of the gifts of this book is 'On the Pages of Your Bible'—deep questions that invite our deep thinking, instructions that lead to reflection and wonderment, encouragements that draw out our true and truer selves. Lisa Nichols Hickman shows us that in discovering ourselves, we discover God.” —Joyce MacKichan Walker, Minister of Education at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, NJ “In a world where life often takes us to the margins, in one way or another, Lisa Hickman's text is inspired and provocative, and it brings new and creative vitality to the biblical witness.” —Pastor Mary Brown, Editor of ON Scripture—The Bible, Odyssey Network

Lisa Nichols Hickman is a pastor at New Wilmington Presbyterian Church, author of Writing in the Margins: Connecting with God on the Pages of Your Bible and adjunct teacher at Westminster College in the Religion Department. She writes regularly for Faith and Leadership online magazine as well as its "Call and Response" blog. Recent articles appear in The Huffington Post, in The New Castle News and in The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. She lives in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.