Publication Date: May 24, 2022
The Rev. Scott Robinson, PhD., TSSF
In poetry and prose, a former hospice chaplain tells what he has learned from living with early-onset Parkinson’s disease. By turns wrenching, funny, and surprising, this part memoir, part poetry chapbook offers wisdom from several of the world’s spiritual traditions, which the author studied as an Interfaith minister.
The author’s work as a hospice chaplain brings insight and compassion into the fraught subjects of death and grief, and his transparency and self-disclosure make him real and relatable. Besides hospice chaplaincy, the author has worked as an actor, musician, Tarot reader, and college music professor, and all these experiences find their way into the book.
The poetry, almost entirely rhymed and metered, is suitable for a general audience, requiring no specialized training or wealth of reading to make it accessible and effective for readers.
The Siege of Jaffa is one of the most incredible pieces I've read for E&A. I felt that way even before the end made it clear that it was an allegory for Parkinson's. I'm very moved by the way you are walking through this very difficult time, and I'm so honored that you're choosing to spend some of it with us. --Terry Stokes, Editor, Earth and Altar
The Rev. Scott Robinson, PhD., TSSF
In poetry and prose, a former hospice chaplain tells what he has learned from living with early-onset Parkinson’s disease. By turns wrenching, funny, and surprising, this part memoir, part poetry chapbook offers wisdom from several of the world’s spiritual traditions, which the author studied as an Interfaith minister.
The author’s work as a hospice chaplain brings insight and compassion into the fraught subjects of death and grief, and his transparency and self-disclosure make him real and relatable. Besides hospice chaplaincy, the author has worked as an actor, musician, Tarot reader, and college music professor, and all these experiences find their way into the book.
The poetry, almost entirely rhymed and metered, is suitable for a general audience, requiring no specialized training or wealth of reading to make it accessible and effective for readers.
The Siege of Jaffa is one of the most incredible pieces I've read for E&A. I felt that way even before the end made it clear that it was an allegory for Parkinson's. I'm very moved by the way you are walking through this very difficult time, and I'm so honored that you're choosing to spend some of it with us. --Terry Stokes, Editor, Earth and Altar
Publication Date: November 1, 2015
The Rev. Scott Robinson, PhD., TSSF
Part memoir, part meditation, part guidepost,The Dark Hills is an insider account of depression from a spiritual perspective. Drawing on Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi and Judeo-Christian wisdom, Scott Robinson leads the reader on a journey by turns raw, lyrical, startling and funny.
With tender beauty, wry humor, and radical self-disclosure, Scott Robinson offers a seamless blend of Hindu wisdom and Christian insight to light our way through the darkest pockets of the human experience. --Mirabai Starr, author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation
The Dark Hills is simply an overflowing cornucopia of mesmerizing ideas, glittering allusions, and rich spiritual musings. I could not possibly recommend it too highly!” --John Killinger, author of Outgrowing Church and If Christians Were Really Christian
[A] fabulous debut from a fine writer and compassionate and sensitive seeker. --Ted Richards, Director of the Chicago Wisdom Project and author of Cosmosophia: Cosmology, Mysticism, and the Birth of a New Myth
The Dark Hills is published by The Sacred Feet Publishing Imprint, $19.95, ISBN: 978-0-9915010-3-8.
The Rev. Scott Robinson, PhD., TSSF
Part memoir, part meditation, part guidepost,The Dark Hills is an insider account of depression from a spiritual perspective. Drawing on Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi and Judeo-Christian wisdom, Scott Robinson leads the reader on a journey by turns raw, lyrical, startling and funny.
With tender beauty, wry humor, and radical self-disclosure, Scott Robinson offers a seamless blend of Hindu wisdom and Christian insight to light our way through the darkest pockets of the human experience. --Mirabai Starr, author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation
The Dark Hills is simply an overflowing cornucopia of mesmerizing ideas, glittering allusions, and rich spiritual musings. I could not possibly recommend it too highly!” --John Killinger, author of Outgrowing Church and If Christians Were Really Christian
[A] fabulous debut from a fine writer and compassionate and sensitive seeker. --Ted Richards, Director of the Chicago Wisdom Project and author of Cosmosophia: Cosmology, Mysticism, and the Birth of a New Myth
The Dark Hills is published by The Sacred Feet Publishing Imprint, $19.95, ISBN: 978-0-9915010-3-8.