Patrick McCaskey's Poems About the Gospel has "hit the streets." If you have seen Pat's live presentations, you know he is a gifted creative writer and he often recites his work. Pat's Poems About the Gospel includes 150 works that focus on specific writings of the Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Each poem zeroes in one or more critical truths. I like to think the poems are faith distilled in only Pat's way of doing it. McCaskey is a humble and humorous man and that certainly comes out in his poems.
The works in Poems About the Gospel are often surprising and humorous. They are the works of a modern man whose faith in one that is as alive today as ever regardless of the directions taken in today's often faithless culture. Truth comes out in the end and McCaskey demonstrates a faith that is strong and secure. And Pat does very little without a sense of humor, so here or there in the poems readers will find a laugh, often the self deprecating variety.
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