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 collection Quiet Hearth: The Religious 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 comply with a easy code to listen to the unique broadcast every day.

“Since its starting, radio has provided a heat medium for connecting the guts, the pinnacle, and the creativeness. This pleasant assortment of Lincoln's knowledge was seeded in a inventive radio present, Quiet Hearth,” writes Sally Kane, CEO of the Nationwide Federation of Group Broadcasters, the place this collection was born on WERU, a station in mid-coastal Maine. “Now, Quiet Hearth has morphed right into a each day companion for readers who join the dots between time and area to map a brand new understanding of the chaotic instances during 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 best 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 effectively,” Day1 radio host Peter Wallace writes within the ebook’s Foreword. “By studying these chic and soulful reflections, possessed—as Duncan places it—by a quiet hearth, you will discover inspiration and perception that may make sense in your individual life, in your individual battles with worry and grief, in your individual choices over the most effective path to absorb a sure state of affairs, in your individual craving for deep which means and function.”

Within the ebook, Newcomer reminds readers of Lincoln’s perception that it’s “not the land that makes us American. It’s a mindset. Individuals will not be a race or a tribe. To Lincoln, Individuals are a individuals who have obtained an amazing 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 doable.”

In these brief, each 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 all over the place for good.” In one other, “God performing in historical past.” 

“It might simply be,” writes Newcomer, “that greater than two centuries after the delivery of Lincoln, new generations of individuals are able to comply with Lincoln as soon as once more—with the intention to discover a new delivery of freedom. This spirit could make the younger unsleeping and relight the fireplace contained in the outdated.”

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

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