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Title: Holy Spokes
Subtitle: The Search for Urban Spirituality on Two Wheels
Author: Laura Everett
Narrator: Marnye Young
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-26-17
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 13 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Invites listeners to embrace the spiritual and communal benefits of cycling in the city.
After Laura Everett's car died on the highway one rainy night, she started riding her bicycle to work - and began an unlikely conversion to full-time bicycle commuter.
In Holy Spokes, Everett tells how she became a dedicated cyclist and uses her story to develop a distinctly urban spirituality. With chapters structured around the parts of a bicycle, the book looks at the history of cycling, relates Everett's own experiences biking in Boston, and reflects on the spiritual dimensions of moving through the city on two wheels.
"As I bike across the cobblestones and potholes of Boston," Everett says, "I now have daily opportunity to see the life of my city more clearly, love the broken world around me more dearly, and follow this path more nearly. Curiously, I think I am closer to God because of my bicycle."
Members Reviews:
Holy Spokes is urban gospel
I seriously COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. If you have ever been on a bike, if you see bikes when you are driving, if you have ever had any contact with a bike or someone who loves them, READ THIS. I see the world and people in it in a dramatically different way after reading Laura's wise, urban,Godly wit and wisdom. Holy Spokes is urban gospel.
I love this book...
Iâm so very glad I read this book. In a super-size-me world this author provides a refreshing alternative. She speaks humbly and boldly about how the world looks from the seat of a bicycle. She does not hector, she celebrates. She celebrates the wonder of her city, itâs peoples, the faith, the church, and the glory of our care for one another. In telling her story she invites us to rediscover the world around us, and the way in which love and justice find us in the midst of brokenness and what looks like chaos. I loved this delightful little book.
A work of art
Holy Spokes is a work of art. It shows the evidence of years of careful sculpting through reflection on experiences with cycling, spiritual practice and ministry. Laura tells her story as a beautifully integrated whole. The bicycle experience is a surprising frame for a spiritual autobiography at its finest. I encourage every Christian to read Laura's story and reflect on your own. What are you learning about habits, endurance, visibility, rest, pacing and joy in your daily routines? Pastors can see public witness in action through this story. Along the way enjoy a well told story with humor and pain - a story that is alive with hope in the midst of the city.
10-Speed Ministry for a 3-Speed Church!
Rev. Laura Everett is a force of nature in New England religion, and she's making a national name for herself with this fine book, which lifts up an important practice of ministry in real landscapes for real people today. There is much for ministry leaders of all stripes to learn from this thoughtful, fun, incarnational read!
Don't let the title scare you off!
Great read for any one who has to share resources (aka all of us on earth!) like cyclists and drivers who share roads with only limited space. Makes one think about how we all should be expected to be "seen" and be sure to "see" others as well.