First Place Winner of the 2020 Paraclete Poetry Prize:
Litany of Flights
2018 Catholic Press Association Book Awards:
I Live, No Longer I
2018 Illumination Book Awards:
I Live, No Longer I
2017 American Book Fest Best Book Awards:
I Live, No Longer I
Litany of Flights
- Selected by judges Mark S. Burrows, Luci Shaw and Jon M. Sweeney as the inaugural winner of the prize.
2018 Catholic Press Association Book Awards:
I Live, No Longer I
- First Place in Spirituality, Hardcover
- First Place in Spirituality, Softcover
- First Place in Theology
- First Place in Scripture, Popular Studies
- 2nd Place in Poetry
2018 Illumination Book Awards:
I Live, No Longer I
- Gold Medal for Spirituality
2017 American Book Fest Best Book Awards:
I Live, No Longer I
- Won the category of Religion: Christianity
Following are excerpts from the 2018 Catholic Press Association Book Awards list:
SPIRITUALITY: Softcover
First Place
I Live, No Longer I: Paul’s Spirituality of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy
by Laura Reece Hogan, Wipf & Stock
Informed by an impressive command of the academic literature about Pauline writings, this is a vital, spiritually rich meditation on suffering. The heart of this wonderful book is an extended exegesis of the Philippians Christ hymn, and how the pattern of Christ’s emptying (kenosis), being with us (enosis) and transformation (theosis) can inform our suffering. Hogan offers a Biblical-based pastoral theology of hope, well illustrated with historical and personal examples, that will encourage us to enter the paradox of suffering that sustained St. Paul. It is a beautifully written book informed by both psychological and spiritual intelligence.
SPIRITUALITY: Hardcover
First Place
I Live, No Longer I: Paul’s Spirituality of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy
by Laura Reece Hogan, Wipf & Stock
We live in a society of ongoing struggles with cancer and various other diseases. This book would be a help to those many caretakers, religious, and medical workers who deal with these issues on a daily basis. This book could be used for both study and meditation.
THEOLOGY
First Place
I Live, No Longer I: Paul’s Spirituality of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy
by Laura Reece Hogan, Wipf & Stock
This book is elegantly written with brilliant exegesis and beautiful pastoral spirituality. It appeals to academics yet is approachable to all, in a presentation of Saint Paul’s spirituality of suffering, joy and transformation. It offers both intellectual insights and spiritual inspiration. The author crafts a gorgeous book that describes one of the most essential Christian doctrines—the Paschal mystery.
SCRIPTURE: Popular Studies
First Place
I Live, No Longer I: Paul’s Spirituality of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy
by Laura Reece Hogan, Wipf & Stock
In the Foreword of the book, Donald Senior states that Laura Hogan’s focus of the work is what Paul’s theology means now. Hogan presents an in-depth study of Paul’s epistles in which she addresses the meaning of suffering and its connection to God and each other. The author states Paul’s answer in the Letter to the Philippians expressed as moments, kenosis, enosis and theosis (i.e. moments of loss, moments of experiencing community, moments of transformative union with God). Laura Hogan encourages the reader to participate in these moments in one’s life to experience union with God, one another, and divine joy. Paul, an authentic teacher from the first century, encouraged his followers to mimesis, or imitation of Christ: to pattern one’s words, actions, and life on Christ. The author gives personal and recent contemporary examples of persons who have lived the patterning of Christ. Laura Hogan, a Third Order Carmelite, mentions Therese of Lisieux, the “little bird” who learned to soar like an eagle as she lived this theology. This book is a gift to contemporary Christians who hope to find solutions in accepting the cross and sufferings of life as moments of God’s transformative presence.
POETRY
Second Place
O Garden-Dweller
by Laura Reece Hogan, Finishing Line Press
Southern California’s drought, trees, tinder and the dirt beneath them channel their voices through the best poems in Laura Reece Hogan’s O Garden-Dweller. The Song of Songs is her inspiration as she uses the natural environment of her home state to imbue many of the book’s poems with the frightful smoke, heat and blazes of the past year’s wildfires. In “Pantoum of the Tinderbox” she writes: “You hide in searing scorched sand. My charred lips crack, peel in pain. I wander this, your parched desert. My throat rattles stripped prayer.” Such imagery serves as metaphor for the parched soul that begs for water yet knows fire purifies before something new can bloom. She reassures us there’s also hope to be found in the wake of fear and destruction, in the poem “Rain Comes in the Fourth Year.” Hogan’s timeliness and excellent way of using California’s forest and fire imagery to illuminate a human soul’s longing make this book a prize winner.
SPIRITUALITY: Softcover
First Place
I Live, No Longer I: Paul’s Spirituality of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy
by Laura Reece Hogan, Wipf & Stock
Informed by an impressive command of the academic literature about Pauline writings, this is a vital, spiritually rich meditation on suffering. The heart of this wonderful book is an extended exegesis of the Philippians Christ hymn, and how the pattern of Christ’s emptying (kenosis), being with us (enosis) and transformation (theosis) can inform our suffering. Hogan offers a Biblical-based pastoral theology of hope, well illustrated with historical and personal examples, that will encourage us to enter the paradox of suffering that sustained St. Paul. It is a beautifully written book informed by both psychological and spiritual intelligence.
SPIRITUALITY: Hardcover
First Place
I Live, No Longer I: Paul’s Spirituality of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy
by Laura Reece Hogan, Wipf & Stock
We live in a society of ongoing struggles with cancer and various other diseases. This book would be a help to those many caretakers, religious, and medical workers who deal with these issues on a daily basis. This book could be used for both study and meditation.
THEOLOGY
First Place
I Live, No Longer I: Paul’s Spirituality of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy
by Laura Reece Hogan, Wipf & Stock
This book is elegantly written with brilliant exegesis and beautiful pastoral spirituality. It appeals to academics yet is approachable to all, in a presentation of Saint Paul’s spirituality of suffering, joy and transformation. It offers both intellectual insights and spiritual inspiration. The author crafts a gorgeous book that describes one of the most essential Christian doctrines—the Paschal mystery.
SCRIPTURE: Popular Studies
First Place
I Live, No Longer I: Paul’s Spirituality of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy
by Laura Reece Hogan, Wipf & Stock
In the Foreword of the book, Donald Senior states that Laura Hogan’s focus of the work is what Paul’s theology means now. Hogan presents an in-depth study of Paul’s epistles in which she addresses the meaning of suffering and its connection to God and each other. The author states Paul’s answer in the Letter to the Philippians expressed as moments, kenosis, enosis and theosis (i.e. moments of loss, moments of experiencing community, moments of transformative union with God). Laura Hogan encourages the reader to participate in these moments in one’s life to experience union with God, one another, and divine joy. Paul, an authentic teacher from the first century, encouraged his followers to mimesis, or imitation of Christ: to pattern one’s words, actions, and life on Christ. The author gives personal and recent contemporary examples of persons who have lived the patterning of Christ. Laura Hogan, a Third Order Carmelite, mentions Therese of Lisieux, the “little bird” who learned to soar like an eagle as she lived this theology. This book is a gift to contemporary Christians who hope to find solutions in accepting the cross and sufferings of life as moments of God’s transformative presence.
POETRY
Second Place
O Garden-Dweller
by Laura Reece Hogan, Finishing Line Press
Southern California’s drought, trees, tinder and the dirt beneath them channel their voices through the best poems in Laura Reece Hogan’s O Garden-Dweller. The Song of Songs is her inspiration as she uses the natural environment of her home state to imbue many of the book’s poems with the frightful smoke, heat and blazes of the past year’s wildfires. In “Pantoum of the Tinderbox” she writes: “You hide in searing scorched sand. My charred lips crack, peel in pain. I wander this, your parched desert. My throat rattles stripped prayer.” Such imagery serves as metaphor for the parched soul that begs for water yet knows fire purifies before something new can bloom. She reassures us there’s also hope to be found in the wake of fear and destruction, in the poem “Rain Comes in the Fourth Year.” Hogan’s timeliness and excellent way of using California’s forest and fire imagery to illuminate a human soul’s longing make this book a prize winner.