Beth Lindsay Templeton had been a writer, poverty advocate, workshop/retreat/ small group leader, mother, and grandmother. However, although she is ordained as a Presbyterian USA minister, she had never served as the pastor of a church. This is a delightfully honest chronicle of her thanks and pleas (and sometimes...
Essential oils are from nature—from plants, trees, flowers, herbs, and grasses. They are God’s creation, surrounding us with beauty and bringing amazement. Is it any wonder that people in Biblical times used these gifts for healing, cleansing, anointing, building, and therapeutic caring? The most famous use of essential oils...
Reading the same passage for a week can often expand our understanding of Biblical verses in wondrous ways. This new devotional book offers readers that opportunity over the course of a year, with 52 passages and seven devotionals relating to each passage that are excerpted from the author’s sermons....
What began as a simple writing project to take my great-grandfather’s book that had languished on shelves for decades and bring it back using current language and idioms became an unexpected quest. I learned that the Civil War was more than battles. George F. Robertson never witnessed any gun...
On February 10, 2018, my life as I knew it came to a screeching halt. The day before, I had rushed my husband, Jim to the hospital… This is the story of the first year of that journey, a year that will forever be sacred.
My newest book, Uncharted Journey: On the Challenges of Getting Older and Other Transitions, is now available at Amazon and Fiction Addiction. Based on quotes from some of our wisest and most revered minds and writers, I share letters of wisdom from a “secret admirer” about the unavoidable transitions...
A collection of stories and poems that reflect on the inherent contrasts of Advent and Christmas: joy and sorrow, traditions and just getting through, religious emphases and secular aspects, loneliness and love, wealth and poverty. Some people live more on one side than the other but in reaching out,...
Refrigerator Prayers for Ordinary People provides daily prayers for those times when you need help getting started with your own prayer for the day or for when you just can't think of anything to say to God. You may find various prayers...
This book grew out of the many questions Beth has received and addresses topics like how to begin a direct aid ministry, what to do when someone on the street asks you for money and how to set up your own poverty tour.
Educators can utilize this book as a tool to improve the education process for other teachers, students, parents by realizing the differences that children in poverty experience.
These conversations with 30 biblical women that visit Beth’s porch address diverse sets of circumstances and challenges.
Thirteen additional biblical women visit Beth’s porch. The chapters include study questions discussing the issues raised by each women.
The adult study guide follows a young girl’s journey through homelessness. Each chapter offers information, sources and study questions about the topics addressed.
This picture book is for parents and grandparents who are helping children develop empathy for classmates who may live in poverty.
