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THE WALNUT GROVE GAZETTE

Special Book Review Edition

Advance Copies Arrive at Oleson’s Mercantile

Local Residents Offer Their Thoughts

“I’d say this one’s worth at least three trips to Sleepy Eye. Half Pint wouldn’t put it down.”

—Charles Ingalls

“I’ve added it to the church library.”

—Rev. Alden

“A fellow named Edwards wrote this? Well . . . I’ll be.”

—Isaiah Edwards

“Pa said we’d read one room every evening.”

—Laura Ingalls

“Well . . . I suppose it’s acceptable. I fail to see what everyone is making such a fuss about.”

—Harriet Oleson

“Pa says it’s about the biggest house any of us will ever live in!”

—Mary Ingalls

“I’d prescribe it.”

—Doc Baker

“Even Harriet couldn’t talk me out of stocking this one.”

—Nels Oleson

“I’d have set this right next to the family Bible.”

—Caroline Ingalls

“I suppose everyone will be talking about it now.”

—Nellie Oleson

FROM OLESON’S MERCANTILE

Jason G. Edwards’s new volume, At Home with God: How the Cross Transforms Us, is now available for preorder. Copies may be ordered wherever fine books are sold.

Mr. Oleson reminds patrons that advance orders help publishers.

Editor’s Note: This special edition of the Walnut Grove Gazette is a work of affectionate parody inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved stories and the classic NBC television series Little House on the Prairie. No actual endorsements were requested from the residents of Walnut Grove.

At Home with God: How the Cross Transforms Us is available for preorder now on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

Find it here: https://a.co/d/0cmj1v2d

Preorders help books find their way into the world…even, apparently, all the way to Walnut Grove.

“In At Home with God, Jason G. Edwards invites us to consider again the mystery of the cross. His evocative imagery, rich poetry, and careful attention to Scripture invites the reader to slow down and ponder again the wonder of the cross and its capacity to make us whole. His use of the home as a guiding metaphor—a metaphor that is familiar yet unexpected—illuminates the work of the cross in ways that are both beautiful and inspiring.”

—W. Dennis Tucker Jr., professor of Christian Scripture at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary

Dr. Tucker first entered my life as my Old Testament professor at Truett. In the years since, he has become one of my most steady encouragers as a writer. He has read early drafts of this and other projects, met with me over Zoom to talk through my work, offered thoughtful feedback, and helped me find my way through the publishing process. Again and again, his wisdom, generosity, and belief in the work have nudged me forward.

People know Dennis as an excellent scholar, writer, teacher, and leader. What has astonished me most, though, are the many ways he faithfully serves Christ and the church that few people ever hear about. Dennis is one of those people whose faith truly reaches into the whole of his life.

That history gives his words a particular weight for me.

At Home with God: How the Cross Transforms Us (IVP)is available for preorder now on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

The Amazon link is below. https://a.co/d/0cmj1v2d

My friend and colleague Rev. Emmitt Drumgoole, pastor of Montgomery Hills Baptist Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, recently shared that his church is planning to use At Home with God: How the Cross Transforms Us as part of its Lenten emphasis.

Our congregation will be journeying through the book during Lent as well, and I have begun developing a sermon series to accompany it. I told Emmitt Drumgoole I would be glad to share that outline with him, and I would be glad to share it with other pastors who may find it useful.

I am also considering writing a daily Lenten devotional and sharing it through Substack as a way of supporting our congregation and other churches, groups, and individuals who want to engage the book prayerfully throughout the season.

If you are a pastor or church leader considering the book for a sermon series, reading group, personal study, or broader Lenten emphasis, I would love to connect and hear what might be helpful.

If you’d like to read “Writing Between Ear and Eye,” you can find it here: 

Grace and peace,

I’m grateful to share another endorsement for At Home with God, this one from Kathy Maxwell, New Testament scholar, Vice President, and Dean of Faculty at Central Seminary

Kathy’s words mean a great deal to me for more reasons than one. She is an excellent scholar and leader, and she has also been one of my wife’s closest friends since they were in the fifth grade.

Kathy is one of the most congruent people I know. Her life carries a rare alignment of wisdom, humility, faithfulness, and kindness. So I was especially moved to receive these generous words from her:

“Jason G. Edwards crafts a meditation on the concept of atonement with the skill of a theologian-poet. He shows us the world limned by the light of Christ’s reconciling work on the cross. Abstract theories find expression in rooms of a great house, distinct and connected, familiar and new. The door to the great house is always open. Edwards invites us to wander through its rooms and find ourselves at home. I have never read a book on atonement like this one.”

—Kathy Maxwell, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Central Seminary

At Home with God: How the Cross Transforms Us (InterVarsity Press)is available for preorder now on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

Here’s the Amazon link: https://a.co/d/0cmj1v2d