Other Side of the Hill, and Home Again

Frank W. Boreham was a preacher who spent his life seeing God in the ordinary, and this collection shows exactly how he did it. The title refers to that moment when you climb to the other side of a hill and see the landscape you've known all your life completely transformed by unfamiliar light. Boreham invites readers to step into those strange vantage points, then return home carrying something they didn't have before. These essays don't preach at you. They wander through history, memory, and the natural world, pausing at unexpected corners to ask what they might teach. A familiar biblical story reveals a hidden character. A passage of literature illuminates something Boreham's congregation needs to hear. The prose has the quality of a man talking to you after Sunday dinner, warm and certain but never heavy-handed. What emerges is a way of paying attention, a practice of standing at angles to your own life to see it whole. Boreham believed everything carried a message if you looked at it from the right place. This book is an invitation to look. For readers who enjoy contemplative essayists, gentle spiritual reflection, and the pleasure of seeing an old thing newly.