Christian Book Award Finalist

But God speaks through wombs,

birthing prophetic utterances. . . .

Enough of this unbelieving religion

that masquerades as faith.

Divine favor is placed on what we

have disgraced.

In God Speaks Through Wombs, Drew Jackson explores the first eight chapters of Luke's Gospel in a new poetic register. These are declarative poems, faithfully proclaiming the gospel story in all its liberative power. Here the gospel is the "fresh words / that speak of / things impossible."

From the Magnificat ("That girl can sing! . . . She has a voice / That can shatter shackles") to the baptism of Christ ("I stepped in / Committing insurrection"), this collection helps us hear the hum of deliverance—against all hope—that's been in the gospel all along.



Drew Jackson is a poet, speaker, and public theologian whose writing explores the intersection of justice, peace, and contemplation. He is the author of two poetry collections, God Speaks Through Wombs: Poems on God's Unexpected Coming and Touch the Earth: Poems on The Way. Drew is on staff with the Center for Action and Contemplation and lives with his wife and twin daughters in Brooklyn, New York.



Foreword by Jon Batiste

Introduction



I. Openings

Theophilus (Lover of God)

God Speaks Through Wombs

The Spirit of Elijah

Nazareth

Theotokos (God-Bearer)

Say His Name

Leap!

That Girl Can Sing!

He's Not Like His Father

Faith Opens Mouths



II. Revelations

In Those (These) Days

O Little Town

Where Lambs Feed

Census Day

Sōtēr

Treasures

Ceremonies and Rituals

Provisions

We Gon' Be Alright

Gray Heads

As Children Do



III. Immersions

Alert to the Times

Waters of Insurrection

Tradition

Down By the Riverside

Immersion

Good Trouble

The Waters of My Weeping

All In

I Am Son

Of Earth and Sky



IV. Temptations

Desert of Desire

Prove It

Views

Shuckin' and Jivin'

An Opportune Time (Out in these Streets)

TheAccent of Home

4x100 (My Leg of the Race)

The Anointing

Back Pew Talk

Euangelion (From Below)

Teaching Time

Today

Challenge

Apparently

A Rude Awakening

On the Edge of Things

Possessed

Authority and Power

The Homes of My Friends

N'em

Desert Places

Vocatio



V. Rolling Deep

Gennesaret

Blue Collar

Jackpot

Few and Far Between

Vocation: Redefined

What Love Touches

Withdraw

Crowded Out

The Crew

Who Can Forgive

Rise Up, My People

Internal Dialogue at a Tax Booth

Follow Me

Dinner Party

Around Tables

Wineskins



VI. On the Plain

Fieldsof Wheat

Sabbath

Same Energy

A Grand Unfolding

Nicknames

Hands Full of Heaven

Late Night Commercials

Fermented Lament

Haters

Enemy Love

Turning Cheeks

Grade School Ethics

Logs and Splinters

Our Good Tree

Wise Words from Mom



VII. Life Lessons

I Struggle with the Word Deserves

Under the Rubble

Youth Mortality

Mothers Like Us

Magic Words of Spring

From Behind Bars

G.O.A.T. Status

Demonized

When They Invited Me for Dinner

Alabaster

Three Kinds of Sinners

I Screen Calls



VIII. Parables and Other Things

And Many Others

The Powerof Parable

Of Seeds and Soil

Mysteries

My Light

Family

The Raging Sea

Legion

Testify

Talitha

Never Make Yourself Small

To Be A Realist

In the Room

Eat Your Fill