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Gregg Koskela

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Born

in San Jose, California, The United States

Website

http://greggkoskela.org

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Christian, Spirituality, Self Help

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J.R.R. Tolkien, Thomas Kelly, Marva Dawn, Miroslav Volf

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I love exploring...people, places, words, truths.

I love encouraging people toward honesty, toward being their best selves.

Writing is one way I try to live out those loves.

After spending decades as a pastor, I no longer have that as my job. Our faith community shattered, and I'm still unraveling the shrapnel. Over the last year I've immersed myself in the writings of women from the middle ages, mystics like Hildegard of Bingen who have grounded me and given me new (and ancient) spiritual life. After taking a spiritual retreat in the place of her birth and life in Germany, I've written a book about what she is teaching me.

Finding Papa is one of the projects closest to my heart. My grandfather was the kindest man I ever knew. My desire to unde ...more

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Finding Hildegard: healing through medieval wisdom

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This book is beyond me-in its poetry, its experience, its wisdom. And yet the power of its writing does take me somewhere. I’m not sure exactly where. An encouragement to ground, be, notice, find the particular, don’t always abstract and try and find ...more
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Really excellent writing, and an engaging story. Forces the reader to grapple with all the ways racism plays out, as well as the universally human experience of acting/trying on roles and the danger of losing one’s self.
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Loved the perspective and thoughts but did not love the writing. Too contrived
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Page turner, creative, action packed. But I’m too old for adolescent romance 😂
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