Thirty Days With Abraham Lincoln: Quiet Hearth

Abraham Lincoln is the soul of America, calling us to our greatest as Individuals. Lincoln scholar Duncan Newcomer has hosted greater than 200 episodes of the radio sequence Quiet Hearth: The Non secular Lifetime of Abraham Lincoln. Now, 30 of his greatest tales present a month of inspirational studying in a novel quantity that invitations us to learn the tales—or to observe a easy code to listen to the unique broadcast every day.

“Since its starting, radio has provided a heat medium for connecting the center, the top, and the creativeness. This pleasant assortment of Lincoln’s knowledge was seeded in a artistic radio present, Quiet Hearth,” writes Sally Kane, CEO of the Nationwide Federation of Group Broadcasters, the place this sequence was born on WERU, a station in mid-coastal Maine. “Now, Quiet Hearth has morphed right into a every day companion for readers who join the dots between time and house to map a brand new understanding of the chaotic occasions through which we stay. Lincoln’s phrases resonate extra urgently than ever, and Duncan has performed alchemist in Quiet Hearth to considered one of our nation’s biggest souls and distilled an essence that may information and luxury us.”

“Duncan Newcomer captures Lincoln’s spirit in each considered one of these thirty meditations, and I really like the truth that these started life on radio since I’m a radio man as properly,” Day1 radio host Peter Wallace writes within the e book’s Foreword. “By studying these chic and soulful reflections, possessed—as Duncan places it—by a quiet hearth, one can find inspiration and perception that may make sense in your personal life, in your personal battles with concern and grief, in your personal selections over the most effective path to absorb a sure scenario, in your personal craving for deep that means and objective.”

Within the e book, Newcomer reminds readers of Lincoln’s perception that it’s “not the land that makes us American. It’s a mindset. Individuals aren’t a race or a tribe. To Lincoln, Individuals are a individuals who have acquired a fantastic reward: a free nation with self-government.” And, Thirty Days With Abraham Lincoln—Quiet Hearth reminds us, writes Newcomer, that “Individuals didn’t create this free nation on their very own; in Lincoln’s thoughts, a divine help made it potential.”

In these quick, every day tales, Newcomer touches repeatedly to the function of the divine in Lincoln’s ideas, writings and deeds. In a single story, Lincoln senses “an abiding presence in all places for good.” In one other, “God performing in historical past.”

“It could simply be,” writes Newcomer, “that greater than two centuries after the beginning of Lincoln, new generations of persons are able to observe Lincoln as soon as once more—as a way to discover a new beginning of freedom. This spirit could make the younger wakeful and relight the hearth contained in the previous.”

Sheryl Fullerton, retired Govt Editor for Faith & Spirituality at John Wiley & Sons, Inc, writes, “Duncan Newcomer provides us the reward of Abraham Lincoln’s smart phrases and Duncan’s personal considerate reflections on a facet of the good president most of us have not likely seen. Learn this e book day-after-day for a month, and you’ll not solely be heartened and enlightened but additionally given hope for our personal troubled occasions.”

Thirty Days With Lincoln, collects Newcomer’s greatest tales from the radio sequence Quiet Hearth, presenting them each in textual content and with a every day hyperlink that may play that authentic broadcast with the clicking of a smartphone app.