Coming This Year...
SAVING GOLIATH
Stories about the Journey Home
Barry J. Robinson

Saving Goliath is a collection of remarkable stories each containing a saving truth about the human condition - a kind of “chunky soup for the soul”.

In this volume you will find stories from Jewish, Native North American, biblical, Zen, Eskimo, Hasidic and Japanese folk traditions, a tall tale from Texas, stories from the teaching tales of Milton H. Erickson, biographical accounts of famous modern figures, snapshots of riveting parables from classic literature and contemporary film, church life and moving stories from the author's own experience - each told with a reflection pointing to the revelatory and, ultimately, human truth contained in each one.

Readers will readily connect with such figures as an unsophisticated shepherd, a young boy who would rather spend time in the woods than in synagogue, a troubled married couple, a rebellious young girl, a schoolyard bully, a shy, wounded war veteran - as well as other peculiar personalities who will delight, sometimes disturb and invariably fascinate.

Throughout the book Barry Robinson weaves his own “take” on each of the tales, pointing out and sometimes leaving the reader to discover for him or herself the deep wisdom each story offers. ". . . stories about the ways that people get trapped and the way they get free again, about the terrible kinds of consequences we bring down upon ourselves whenever we try, for whatever reason, to resist our deepest instincts and the fortuitous ways in which we get redeemed in spite of ourselves...”. Whether or not the stories in this volume have such power to transform will be up to you to discover. I can only confess that each of them has, in some sense, transfixed and transformed me in some way . . . had ‘my name’ on them . . . and, in effect told me”.

An outstanding example of the art of fine story-telling.