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Dean Summers

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June 25, 1951

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Dean Summers, author of Marching to Zion, is an Elder (lay leader) of Japanese Presbyterian Church in Seattle, and a member of that congregation’s preaching team under the direction of the Senior Pastor.

Dean is an accomplished haiku poet, published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Cicada, and Brussels Sprout. He is the editor and publisher of three works of haiku by Robert Gibson, and, with Ruth Yarrow, served as a judge for the 2004 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards.

His work draws from his experience as a leader of an urban Christian kibbutz; as an executive director of an organization that facilitated partnerships between suburban and urban Christian congregations; as a college student in Japan, India, and Israel; and...more


Average rating: 4.75 · 4 ratings · 4 reviews · 2 distinct works
Marching to Zion
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011
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Simply Jesus by N.T. Wright
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This has become my new #1 favorite book! Though I’d give it a different title. I’d call it Who Does Jesus Think He Is? A Straightforward Reading of the Gospels in their Historical, Literary, and Cultural Context.

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“The Kingdom of Heaven is where God’s will is done. When God’s will is done on earth as it is in Heaven, we know God as the God of life and love; we enjoy direct, open communication with God; we enjoy life together with God and with people from every nation in a community of grace and gratitude.”
Dean Summers, Marching to Zion

“The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet--”
Kobayashi Issa, The Dumpling Field: Haiku Of Issa

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass

“From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.”
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)”
Seneca, Medea

“Cela est bien, repondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.”
Voltaire, Candide




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