A Room Called Remember (1984)
Book Description
A Room Called Remember brings together a series of never-before-published essays, addresses, and sermons.
Covering a rich variety of topics, these ‘uncollected pieces’ meditate on faith, hope, love, and the power of words. Buechner also offers further reflections on autobiography as theology, and explores biblical passages and theological concepts from new and fascinating angles.
Featuring sermons delivered at the Harvard Memorial Church, essays published in The New York Times Book Review, and articles written for such publications as The Christian Century, this “grab bag” of musings, observations, and disquisitions is intent upon leading its readers into “a room called remember”:
But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely, but from time to time—to enter that still room within us all where the past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember—the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.
Reviews
"[Buechner is] one of our most original storytellers…[His] reader…feels as if he is being addressed in an extraordinarily personal way. Intimate, dignified and wryly humorous, Buechner’s voice turns us into listeners."
— USA Today
"No one is better than Buechner at intertwining the stuff of faith, the gritty details of life ‘in the real world,’ and the witness of personal quest."
— Presbyterian Survey
"[Buechner’s] magnificent command of the English language will enlighten and enthrall."
— Bookstore Journal
