Frederick Buechner

American novelist (A Long Day's Dying
Died on Monday August 15th 2022

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@EveFish28015553: RIP, Frederick Buechner. Your writing was some of the most mentally stimulating I've ever read. - 2 years ago

@Beth4565: RT @ginger_opal1: "For a child all time is by and large NOW time & apparently endless. It is by content rather than its duration that a chi… - 2 years ago

@alejamming: RT @PediatriaOggi: "La compassione è a volte la capacità fatale di sentire com’è vivere dentro la pelle di qualcun altro; è la consapevolez… - 2 years ago

@FiorellaTancre1: RT @PediatriaOggi: "La compassione è a volte la capacità fatale di sentire com’è vivere dentro la pelle di qualcun altro; è la consapevolez… - 2 years ago

@patrizia62roma: RT @PediatriaOggi: "La compassione è a volte la capacità fatale di sentire com’è vivere dentro la pelle di qualcun altro; è la consapevolez… - 2 years ago

@mjschuurman: Frederick Buechner, the Reverend of Oz - 2 years ago

@mjschuurman: "But the way Buechner lived and preached is more relevant than ever today. He found a way to address a growing cyni… - 2 years ago

@thezenteacher: RT @abitofzen: "Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid" - Frederick Buechner - 2 years ago

@PCUSAFoundation: Frederick Buechner, an ordained #PCUSA evangelist who inspired Christians across conservative and progressive divid… - 2 years ago

@PediatriaOggi: "La compassione è a volte la capacità fatale di sentire com’è vivere dentro la pelle di qualcun altro; è la consape… - 2 years ago

@TrixOnus: RT @BrianZahnd: "The grace of God means something like: 'Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are, because the party would… - 2 years ago

@abitofzen: "Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid" - Frederick Buechner - 2 years ago

@CamMcAllister7: Doing a deep dive on Frederick Buechner for a piece I'm writing and man is it a joy. We lost a giant. - 2 years ago

@PhdCampbell: RT @DonnaChacko: @MJGerson in WashPost today re Frederick Buechner's passing--how this author could "find the frequency of grace." We all n… - 2 years ago

@PhdCampbell: RT @Fred_Buechner: It is with great sadness—but greater appreciation for his well-lived life—that we share the news of Frederick Buechner’s… - 2 years ago

@PhdCampbell: RT @Knapsack: Another thoughtful tribute to @Fred_Buechner. - 2 years ago

@wdavidotaylor: RT @fullerseminary: "If more pastor-theologians were as brutally honest about their broken lives, as Fred Buechner was... I dare say the ch… - 2 years ago

@Knapsack: Another thoughtful tribute to @Fred_Buechner. - 2 years ago

@faithfulskeptic: RT @standonthedesk: One more Buechner tribute...probably the best I've read. It might have the best explanation of why I was drawn to his… - 2 years ago

@DonnaChacko: @MJGerson in WashPost today re Frederick Buechner's passing--how this author could "find the frequency of grace." W… - 2 years ago

@jmancini77: Thank you, @MJGerson - Frederick Buechner was a writer tuned in to the frequency of grace - 2 years ago

@ERBks: RT @scottdnoble: Frederick Buechner Books - An Introductory Reading Guide - 2 years ago

@craigemattson: Frederick Buechner's such an important voice in the community of my heart (even when the voice grates a bit). Glad… - 2 years ago

@cpainter1: Frederick Buechner was a writer tuned in to the frequency of grace - 2 years ago

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@priest_rebel: RT @reachjulieroys: Popular Christian 'writer's writer' and 'minister's minister,' Frederick Buechner (@Fred_Buechner), has died. He was 96… - 2 years ago

@SheriWriter: RT @MJGerson: “We are led toward truth and beauty by a lump in the throat.” - 2 years ago

@ccarneym: RT @MJGerson: “We are led toward truth and beauty by a lump in the throat.” - 2 years ago

@margreis9: Frederick Buechner was a writer tuned in to the frequency of grace undefined - 2 years ago

@MJGerson: “We are led toward truth and beauty by a lump in the throat.” - 2 years ago

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@AndyCornett: Frederick Buechner was a writer tuned in to the frequency of grace - 2 years ago

@LeeEbersole: Frederick Buechner was a writer tuned in to the frequency of grace - 2 years ago

@MarkMFallon: "Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's needs." - Frederick Buechner #LittleLessons #purpose #needs #gladness - 2 years ago

@gretchenpeters: "We are led toward truth and beauty by a lump in the throat." I'm a latecomer to Frederick Buechner but will be mak… - 2 years ago

@Theopoiesis: “how a modern person, schooled in skepticism, pursued by appropriate doubts, could find the frequency of grace” - 2 years ago

@revjdouglas: RT @tonywatkins_: Frederick Buechner "realized that the problem with steeling yourself against pain is that you simultaneously close yourse… - 2 years ago

@sandralhanlon: RT @MJGerson: “Buechner… understood that faith and doubt are not opposites but integral parts of the human journey. He knew that openness i… - 2 years ago

@galoffin: RT @MJGerson: “Buechner… understood that faith and doubt are not opposites but integral parts of the human journey. He knew that openness i… - 2 years ago

@ginger_opal1: "For a child all time is by and large NOW time & apparently endless. It is by content rather than its duration that… - 2 years ago

@Enhance___: via @NYTOpinion - 2 years ago

@matthewwwiley: RT @wdavidotaylor: Buechner had no patience for "plaster saints" who're far removed from the rough-and-tumble of human existence. He had in… - 2 years ago

@wdavidotaylor: Buechner had no patience for "plaster saints" who're far removed from the rough-and-tumble of human existence. He h… - 2 years ago

@fpcholt: Remembering Frederick Buechner - 2 years ago

@PeterLandau: Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant #obitpix #frederickbuechner #presbyterian #minister #novelist… - 2 years ago

@gsands: “Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.” Frederick Buechner - 2 years ago

@stevestampley: My Godparents gave me a copy of Buechner's "Wishful Thinking" when I was in high school. I learned a lot from that… - 2 years ago

@reformedjrnl: One of the many obituaries and tributes to Frederick Buechner. - 2 years ago

@tracyhar049: Maybe broken or injured or doubting religious tweeps will gain some relief from this pastor with a small “p”…. - 2 years ago

@PropCazhPM: RT @wdavidotaylor: Grateful to be quoted in this tribute to @Fred_Buechner by @JohnBlakeCNN. On the corrosive power of secrets: "the keepi… - 2 years ago

@JohnBlakeCNN: RT @wdavidotaylor: Grateful to be quoted in this tribute to @Fred_Buechner by @JohnBlakeCNN. On the corrosive power of secrets: "the keepi… - 2 years ago

@JohnBlakeCNN: RT @burkedaniel13: Love this piece by @JohnBlakeCNN on Frederick Buechner, a writer, pastor and novelist who preached without being preachy… - 2 years ago

@ChappellTemple: RT @aaronstern: “Resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing.” Frederick Buechner - 2 years ago

@Jpa89: RT @writing4urlife: Please enjoy this wonderful letter to Frederick Buechner from award-winning author Kathleen Long Bostom - 2 years ago

@richtafel: Opinion | The Man Who Found His Inner Depths - The New York Times - 2 years ago

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@edwinarbaethge: RT @CarlosHappyNPO: Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the kn… - 2 years ago

@KristinOlsenCA: “Vocation is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need.” Frederick Buechner - 2 years ago

@Journey_JH: RT @atmostbeautiful: 내 안의 아이를 깨워라. 아이는 신기한 곳을 찾아 가고 답을 모르는 것을 부끄러워하지 않는다; 삶에 귀 기울이고 깊이를 알 수 없는 신비에 눈떠라; 신앙은 위치가 아니라 어딘가를 향해 나아가는 것: 자신의 깊은… - 2 years ago

@kdrietkerk: RT @wdavidotaylor: Grateful to be quoted in this tribute to @Fred_Buechner by @JohnBlakeCNN. On the corrosive power of secrets: "the keepi… - 2 years ago

@LisaDelay: @FayelleEwuakye here's a place to see what looks good. It's hard to answer for me, mainly… - 2 years ago

@gyoung9751: Found - poem by Frederick Buechner at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin) - 2 years ago

@burkedaniel13: Love this piece by @JohnBlakeCNN on Frederick Buechner, a writer, pastor and novelist who preached without being pr… - 2 years ago

@RNS: Frederick Buechner was asked on numerous occasions how he would sum up everything he had preached and written in bo… - 2 years ago

@writing4urlife: Please enjoy this wonderful letter to Frederick Buechner from award-winning author Kathleen Long Bostom… - 2 years ago

@CompassionChr: Please enjoy this wonderful letter to Frederick Buechner from award-winning author Kathleen Long Bostom… - 2 years ago

@wdavidotaylor: Grateful to be quoted in this tribute to @Fred_Buechner by @JohnBlakeCNN. On the corrosive power of secrets: "the… - 2 years ago

@LindenTheScribe: RT @jeremyrut: “‘He made space for what was beautiful and for what was terrible, and he didn't avoid either one,’ Rutledge says. Thank you… - 2 years ago

@MarkRexHernes: “To lend to each other a hand when we’re falling…Perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end” Frederick Buechner, - 2 years ago

@JimmyCalvert74: Jesus says: "the people who get into heaven are people who, like children, don't worry about it too much." ~ Freder… - 2 years ago

@anthonydoes: "The final secret, I think, is this: that the words 'You shall love the Lord your God' become in the end less a com… - 2 years ago

@TimothyJShaw1: #Frederick #Buechner - novelist, chaplain at #Phillips #Exeter #Academy #NH, wrote influential autobiographies and… - 2 years ago

@ellin_richard: RT @Bezner: “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.” See you on Resurrection Day, Frederick Buech… - 2 years ago

@yancey_bot: 나를 깨뜨리지 않고 의심의 여지 하나 없이 하나님이 어떻게 그 자신을 계시할 수 있을까? 의심할 이유가 하나도 없다면, 나는 더 이상 존재하지 않으리(frederick Buechner) -하나님 당신께 실망했습니다 59p - 2 years ago

@ReligionProf: Frederick Buechner (1926 – 2022) Writer And Theologian - 2 years ago

@tonywatkins_: Frederick Buechner "realized that the problem with steeling yourself against pain is that you simultaneously close… - 2 years ago

@cheaplysimple: How one pastor redefined the art of not preaching - 2 years ago

@CT_inchinese: RT @MelissaMoore77: Tears of sadness/gratitude for all he gave us. “But I think that the price that one pays by dealing with your pain by… - 2 years ago

@rch371: '"Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward." It is… - 2 years ago

@rch371: We lost the physical presence of a beautiful spirit this week. But we'll be reunited and compare notes on the comin… - 2 years ago

@jnjcasper: A Shelf Called Remember: How Frederick Buechner Built Up My Faith - 2 years ago

@drinlow: The Man Who Found His Inner Depths - 2 years ago

@ashadornfest: Appreciate this gracious intro to novelist Frederick Buechner. I’ve now put a bunch of his books on hold at the lib… - 2 years ago

@t33458: The Man Who Found His Inner Depths - 2 years ago

@MetaCulture2: Buechner seems such a fascinating writer, theologian and man. I must read him! Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a… - 2 years ago

@PaulDistilled: "One of Buechner’s often cited observations is that you find your vocation at the spot where your deep gladness mee… - 2 years ago

@randrewwhite: @nytdavidbrooks - 2 years ago

@HammerDave8: RT @NLClark2: It's a double quote day: “All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Tod… - 2 years ago

@NLClark2: It's a double quote day: “All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged fr… - 2 years ago

@HughGreeneJax: The Man Who Found His Inner Depths - 2 years ago

@yancey_bot: 나를 깨뜨리지 않고 의심의 여지 하나 없이 하나님이 어떻게 그 자신을 계시할 수 있을까? 의심할 이유가 하나도 없다면, 나는 더 이상 존재하지 않으리(frederick Buechner) -하나님 당신께 실망했습니다 59p - 2 years ago

@KevinGHarvey: Just started reading "The Remarkable Ordinary." Thanks, CT, for introducing me to this wonderful writer. - 2 years ago

@LowellMichelson: David Brooks reflecting on Frederick Buechner: - 2 years ago

@pboykin44: RT @peopledseas: "You find your vocation at the spot where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.” Frederick Buechner - 2 years ago

@craigemattson: In commemoration of the late Frederick Buechner. - 2 years ago

@nonhero69: RT @gracelover712: “Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the k… - 2 years ago

@giles_carol: From CTmagazine: “What caught my attention was a serious Christian who seemed to see what I could feel but couldn’t… - 2 years ago

@MaryMargaretGil: RT @RobertEllsberg: Reflection on life of Frederick Buechner. via @NYTOpinion - 2 years ago

@KempKeepnItReal: RT @RobertEllsberg: Reflection on life of Frederick Buechner. via @NYTOpinion - 2 years ago

@MaryKayKenney: RT @RobertEllsberg: Reflection on life of Frederick Buechner. via @NYTOpinion - 2 years ago

@gracelover712: “Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is… - 2 years ago

@mgav: "…the problem with steeling yourself against #pain is that you simultaneously close yourself off from being transfo… - 2 years ago

@grayse1: RT @CTmagazine: “What caught my attention was a serious Christian who seemed to see what I could feel but couldn’t really articulate,” writ… - 2 years ago

@aahrens430: “Buechner’s vocation was to show a way to experience the fullness of life. Of death, he wrote, “What’s lost is noth… - 2 years ago

@bobrobertsjr: Opinion | The Man Who Found His Inner Depths - The New York Times - 2 years ago

@RobertEllsberg: Reflection on life of Frederick Buechner. via @NYTOpinion - 2 years ago

@tonywatkins_: RT @CTmagazine: “What caught my attention was a serious Christian who seemed to see what I could feel but couldn’t really articulate,” writ… - 2 years ago

@KyleLWhite: “Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward.”-Frederi… - 2 years ago

@kjgheroman: RT @CTmagazine: “What caught my attention was a serious Christian who seemed to see what I could feel but couldn’t really articulate,” writ… - 2 years ago

@CTmagazine: “What caught my attention was a serious Christian who seemed to see what I could feel but couldn’t really articulat… - 2 years ago

@charliepeacock: RT @reedarvin: RIP to Frederick Buechner, Christian writer and explorer of the soul. Of faith he wrote, "Faith is less a position on than a… - 2 years ago

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@quackitude: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@ian_writes: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@EAnkerberg: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@MckeanCarrie: “…constant media consumption, shallow communication, speed and productivity. Sometimes I think the national obsessi… - 2 years ago

@floparismusic: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@rmitchrandall: RT @cliff_vaughn: .@aaaldape @GFMediaOrg: "Remembering Frederick Buechner and His Permission to Be Fearless" - 2 years ago

@abirdcalledhope: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@mark_mcdonnel: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@Bandosi: RT @chvn951: Thousands of people impacted by the writing of Frederick Buechner are remembering his legacy as they mourn his death. https:/… - 2 years ago

@joshgraves: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@WWBAGLEY2: RT @BrianZahnd: “He described the Gospel as a great fairy tale that happens to be true.” - 2 years ago

@ERBks: @HootenWilson Well, I might have said Frederick Buechner, but… Wendell Berry, Ross Gay, Willie Jennings - 2 years ago

@ATXPastor: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@joshdabom: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@ngrtsl: RT @atmostbeautiful: 내 안의 아이를 깨워라. 아이는 신기한 곳을 찾아 가고 답을 모르는 것을 부끄러워하지 않는다; 삶에 귀 기울이고 깊이를 알 수 없는 신비에 눈떠라; 신앙은 위치가 아니라 어딘가를 향해 나아가는 것: 자신의 깊은… - 2 years ago

@N8Carlson: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@sheispuzzled: RT @atmostbeautiful: 내 안의 아이를 깨워라. 아이는 신기한 곳을 찾아 가고 답을 모르는 것을 부끄러워하지 않는다; 삶에 귀 기울이고 깊이를 알 수 없는 신비에 눈떠라; 신앙은 위치가 아니라 어딘가를 향해 나아가는 것: 자신의 깊은… - 2 years ago

@nytopinion: RT @BrianZahnd: “He described the Gospel as a great fairy tale that happens to be true.” - 2 years ago

@abject_reptile: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@Enhance___: via @NYTOpinion - 2 years ago

@sparkyards: via @NYTOpinion David Brooks is an enigma to me. One week infuriatingly hermetic - totally confident in a perspecti… - 2 years ago

@mabenavent: The Man Who Found His Inner Depths - 2 years ago

@arvinvreyes: RT @iamfujimura: ⁦@nytdavidbrooks⁩ on Frederick Buechner “He spent the rest of his life as a border-stalker, too literary for many Christia… - 2 years ago

@drjamesgordon: Thank you, @nytdavidbrooks, for sharing the compassionately observed knowing of Frederick Buechner, the novelist, e… - 2 years ago

@SteveBarberio: Frederick Buechner. - 2 years ago

@popchurch: It is impossible to describe in 350 words how Frederick Buechner has influenced my life. But three passages point i… - 2 years ago

@RobertG50380307: RT @AnneLinstatter: "What's lost is nothing next to what is found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a… - 2 years ago

@TimScheiderer: Amongst other things, Frederick Buechner taught us Jesus's parables are "meant to involve us—not just with our mind… - 2 years ago

@AnneLinstatter: "What's lost is nothing next to what is found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fi… - 2 years ago

@NewFeatured: The Man Who Found His Inner DepthsOne morning in the fall of 1936, 10-year-old Frederick Buechner and his younger b… - 2 years ago

@kevinburns71: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@TransformVille: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a comm… - 2 years ago

@MarkHallock: “Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe… - 2 years ago

@AnneLinstatter: The Man Who Found His Inner Depths - 2 years ago

@todaypraise8: RT @CSLIChicago: “What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.” —… - 2 years ago

@Jpa89: RT @writing4urlife: Excellent article about Frederick Buechner @Fred_Buechner - 2 years ago

@AnneLinstatter: RT @AnneLinstatter: Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96 - 2 years ago

@AnneLinstatter: Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96 - 2 years ago

@juhyun2022: RT @atmostbeautiful: 내 안의 아이를 깨워라. 아이는 신기한 곳을 찾아 가고 답을 모르는 것을 부끄러워하지 않는다; 삶에 귀 기울이고 깊이를 알 수 없는 신비에 눈떠라; 신앙은 위치가 아니라 어딘가를 향해 나아가는 것: 자신의 깊은… - 2 years ago

@Fajri_W_: The Gospel is a fairy tale with, of course, one crucial difference from all other fairy tales… That it is true, and… - 2 years ago

@terraoliveira_: RT @stpayton: The final secret, I think, is this: that the words “You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a… - 2 years ago

@JoyKWarner: Beautiful. - 2 years ago

@q_driskell4: Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96 - 2 years ago

@justgetoutfucku: RT @atmostbeautiful: 내 안의 아이를 깨워라. 아이는 신기한 곳을 찾아 가고 답을 모르는 것을 부끄러워하지 않는다; 삶에 귀 기울이고 깊이를 알 수 없는 신비에 눈떠라; 신앙은 위치가 아니라 어딘가를 향해 나아가는 것: 자신의 깊은… - 2 years ago

@smDeWittHall: RT @CarlosHappyNPO: Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the kn… - 2 years ago

@leopercer: “It is snow that can awaken memories of things more wonderful than anything you ever knew or dreamed.” Frederick Bu… - 2 years ago

@lura_groen: RT @CarlosHappyNPO: Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the kn… - 2 years ago

@leopercer: “. . . but unless the child in you is entirely dead, it is snow, too, that can make the heart beat faster when it c… - 2 years ago

@leopercer: “The earth is covered with it, and it is falling still in silence so deep that you can hear its silence. It is snow… - 2 years ago

@leopercer: “All this has disappeared overnight, and what you look out on is not the snow of Narnia but the snow of home, which… - 2 years ago

@mdaltoneka: RT @iamfujimura: ⁦@nytdavidbrooks⁩ on Frederick Buechner “He spent the rest of his life as a border-stalker, too literary for many Christia… - 2 years ago

@leopercer: “You wake up on a winter morning & pull up the shade, & what lay there the evening before is no longer there--the s… - 2 years ago

@usdaynews: On August 15, 2022, an American writer, novelist, and theologian left this world. #FrederickBuechner passed away at… - 2 years ago

@wc_quinn: Recommendations on where I should start with Fred Buechner? - 2 years ago

@HoDud: - 2 years ago

@clairebangasser: The Man Who Found His Inner Depths - 2 years ago

@person_doug: Doubt Be Not Proud - 2 years ago

@self_assuredbb: RT @atmostbeautiful: 내 안의 아이를 깨워라. 아이는 신기한 곳을 찾아 가고 답을 모르는 것을 부끄러워하지 않는다; 삶에 귀 기울이고 깊이를 알 수 없는 신비에 눈떠라; 신앙은 위치가 아니라 어딘가를 향해 나아가는 것: 자신의 깊은… - 2 years ago