Book
My first book, a collection of essays about the church year and the garden year, will appear from Belle Point Press on 19 November 2024.
Here’s the publisher’s description:
Matt Miller’s debut essay collection, Leaves of Healing: A Year in the Garden, journeys through the garden year and the church year together to uncover how life in both realms can help us rediscover our bodies and our sense of time, thereby helping us reach toward the sense of wholeness we all seek. Following the cycles of physical and liturgical seasons from a residential permaculture garden in the Ozarks, each meditation combines reflections on labor in the soil with investigations of spiritual insights into the paradoxically timeless yet time-rooted realities of our eternal souls.
Here’s what Jeff Bilbro, editor of Front Porch Republic said about the book:
Matt Miller invites readers to a marvelous hypaethral Sunday school, one that ponders the mysteries of creation and Creator while tasting the tang of an heirloom tomato. This is no curated, Instagrammable experience, however: calloused hands shaped each sentence, and dirt clings to these words. Yet if Matt is well acquainted with sweat and grief, he has also learned that hope may be found around any corner of the garden. Join him for this series of meditations that will feed you body and soul.
