Walter Wangerin Jr.





Walter Wangerin Jr.

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February 13, 1944

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Walter Wangerin Jr. is widely recognized as one of the most gifted writers writing today on the issues of faith and spirituality. Starting with the renowned Book of the Dun Cow, Wangerin's writing career has encompassed most every genre: fiction, essay, short story, children's story, meditation, and biblical exposition. His writing voice is immediately recognizable, and his fans number in the millions. The author of over forty books, Wangerin has won the National Book Award, New York Times Best Children's Book of the Year Award, and several Gold Medallions, including best-fiction awards for both The Book of God and Paul: A Novel. He lives in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University.


Average rating: 4.01 · 3,887 ratings · 612 reviews · 49 distinct works · Similar authors
The Book of the Dun Cow (Ch...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,428 ratings — published 1978 — 12 editions
The Book of God: The Bible ...
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions
The Book of Sorrows (Chaunt...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions
Paul
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions
Ragman: And Other Cries of ...
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
As For Me And My House: Cra...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 137 ratings5 editions
Reliving the Passion: Medit...
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
Jesus
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions
Miz Lil: And the Chronicles...
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions
Saint Julian
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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“The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.”
Walter Wangerin Jr., Reliving the Passion: Meditations on the Suffering, Death, and the Resurrection of Jesus as Recorded in Mark.

“Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.”
Walter Wangerin Jr.

“She had caused to surround us the very atmosphere of "home," so that however far we traveled, however strange the territory, I was "home" as long as I was with her. ”
Walter Wangerin Jr., As For Me And My House: Crafting Your Marriage To Last

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