Touching the Bones of Elisha

“The authors, like well-worn, flat stones, skip across the waves of three thousand years of Judeo-Christian traditions. They bounce from young volunteers in Malawi to Job to sisters in a Nazi concentration camp to Francis of Assisi to the Curse on the Chicago Cubs! And with each bounce, the reader is treated to inspiring stories of God acting in our lives. Each chapter concludes with four helpful ways to awaken our spiritual lives. Practical, touching, effective ways to help us touch those life-giving bones of Elisha.”


—William L. Burton, OFM, professor of Scripture, St. Mary’s Seminary & University





“Prophets are agents of the future who act outside of the structures of power to awaken imagination for new ways of seeing and living. In this book, Albert Haase and Phil Vestal explore surprising connections between the life of Elisha and key themes in the teachings of Jesus. They dare us to imagine what it might look like for us to be awake to divine reality in our everyday lives.”


—Mark Scandrette, author of Practicing the Way of Jesus





“In this book, various insights derived from nine episodes of the prophet Elisha are brought to bear on contemporary experience. The insights are discussed from several different religio-cultural perspectives, then take the form of religious practices that prove universally relevant. Though boasting dual authorship, lines of diversity cannot be detected in this very readable study of an unfamiliar prophet.”


—Dianne Bergant, CSA, professor emerita of Old Testament studies, Catholic Theological Union