NEW YORK—November 27, 2018—Morgan James’s new release, Where the Colors Blend: An Authentic Journey Through Spiritual Doubt, Despair, and a Beautiful Arrival at Hope by Stephen Copeland, shares an authentic journey through spiritual doubt, deconstruction, and depression, and a beautiful arrival at hope.
In Where the Colors Blend, Stephen Copeland’s self-discovery and God-discovery is told over a period of six years in the context of an annual retreat to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Roanoke, Virginia. There, an obscure, thirty-year-old church softball tournament takes place each Labor Day weekend to raise funds for mission work in Paraguay. In stepping into these stories, and sharing them with the reader, Stephen simultaneously journeys deeper within himself, discovering the divine in the process. Throughout the narrative, readers experience with Stephen several paradigm shifts in certain areas, including spirituality, relationships, art, writing, and work.
Where the Colors Blend inspires readers’ Christian imagination and encourages them to experience the wonder and mystery of Christian theology and inspires them to enter into others’ stories and meet them in their sufferings. It equips readers to identify the false self and to unmask the world and its distractions. Stephen challenges readers to adopt a lifestyle of introspection and contemplation and moves to readers to shift their pursuits from the American Dream to selfless service. Readers are encouraged to be transparent about vulnerabilities and to discover a hope in the thick of doubt, darkness, and despair.
The present-tense narrative of Where the Colors Blend, mysteriously unfolding all the way, is free-thinking and free-flowing, swinging from humor to complex theology. It creates a unique experience for readers as it challenges them to adopt their own lifestyle of introspection and contemplation.
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About the Author: Stephen Copeland is a writer and storyteller. He is a former staff writer and columnist at Sports Spectrum Magazine, a national faith-based sports magazine, and his articles have also been published in Christianity Today. He has co-authored nearly a dozen books and is a Daggy Scholar and member of the International Thomas Merton Society. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in journalism and Bible from Grace College. Stephen resides in Nashville, TN.
More About This Title: Where the Colors Blend: An Authentic Journey Through Spiritual Doubt, Despair, and a Beautiful Arrival at Hope by Stephen Copeland will be released by Morgan James Publishing on November 27, 2018. Where the Colors Blend—ISBN 978-1683509677—has 240 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $17.95.
About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. (www.MorganJamesPublishing.com)
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