Abe Figueroa
Speaker • Writer • Teacher
Abe Figueroa writes with contemplative attention to Christian theology, lived experience, and imagination. His writing explores how beauty, truth and holiness take shape in the muddled mess of our ordinary lives.
Book Reviews
“This is the particular magic of Buechner’s prose and, I suppose, the true sense of scripture: an uncanny witness to life.”
— Telling The Truth
Essay
“If it is a prerequisite for beauty and truth to stand apart from the actual mess of our lives, then I cannot make sense of the incarnation.”
— Profane and Holy Ground
Memoir
“The second-story window of my room looked over the roofs of my neighbors and framed the dark forested hill now alive with rhythm and death—my body a black silhouette against the dim of last light.”
— Profane and Holy Ground