Thirty Days With Abraham Lincoln: Quiet Hearth

Abraham Lincoln is the soul of America, calling us to our greatest as People. 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 singular 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 supplied a heat medium for connecting the center, the top, 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 sequence was born on WERU, a station in mid-coastal Maine. “Now, Quiet Hearth has morphed right into a day by day companion for readers who join the dots between time and area to map a brand new understanding of the chaotic instances through which we reside. 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 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 elegant and soulful reflections, possessed—as Duncan places it—by a quiet hearth, you will discover inspiration and perception that can make sense in your personal life, in your personal battles with concern and grief, in your personal choices over the most effective path to absorb a sure state of affairs, in your personal craving for deep that means and goal.”

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. People aren’t a race or a tribe. To Lincoln, People are a individuals who have acquired an incredible present: a free nation with self-government.” And, Thirty Days With Abraham Lincoln—Quiet Hearth reminds us, writes Newcomer, that “People didn’t create this free nation on their very own; in Lincoln’s thoughts, a divine help made it attainable.”

In these quick, day by 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 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—with a purpose to discover a new beginning of freedom. This spirit could make the younger conscious and relight the fireplace contained in the outdated.”

Sheryl Fullerton, retired Govt Editor for Faith & Spirituality at John Wiley & Sons, Inc, writes, “Duncan Newcomer offers us the present of Abraham Lincoln’s clever phrases and Duncan’s personal considerate reflections on a aspect of the good president most of us have probably not seen. Learn this e-book daily 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 sequence Quiet Hearth, presenting them each in textual content and with a day by day hyperlink that can play that unique broadcast with the press of a smartphone app.