After Amen: 50 Days of Poetry and Prayer

Teach me again the stillness from which movement finds its meaning,

The stillness from which movement is beauty,

The stillness that rouses the slumbering imagination.

—from “Be Still”

After his shocking advanced-stage cancer diagnosis, pastor and author Tyler Staton found himself cast into a wilderness of emotion. Amid the struggle he found strength in the familiar solaces of prayer, soli­tude, and Scripture, but also through an unexpected source: w...