In the House of Rising Sounds: A Boisterous Music Bar, a Faith in Transition, and the Thin Space They Inhabited

Stephen Copeland

ISBN 10: 1666752401 / ISBN 13: 9781666752403

Published by Resource Publications May 2023, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the House of Rising Sounds: A Boisterous Music Bar, a Faith in Transition, and the Thin Space They Inhabited
• Publisher: Resource Publications May 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666752401
• ISBN 13: 9781666752403
• Binding: New Trade
• Condition: New
• Signed: Signed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • New Bios and Memoirs

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Synopsis

Ancient Celts saw "thin places" where heaven and earth came strangely close to touching. Stephen Copeland experienced something similar when his mentor took him to the Double Door Inn, an historic hole-in-the-wall blues venue in Charlotte, North Carolina. This unassuming place invited Copeland further into a spiritual journey that calls out to each of us: to open our senses and "tune our ears" to thin places all around; to become aware of sacred spaces in everyday places. When Copeland learned the half-century-old Double Door Inn would be tragically closing, he made the old white house of sound his home during its final year. What do thin places teach us about ourselves? What do they teach us about reality itself? And what do we do when they're gone? Copeland's soul-searching journey--with the Double Door as his guide--will help readers become more present and attentive to the thinness of reality as we walk "with our feet on the ground and our soul in the stars."

About the Author

Stephen Copeland is a writer and storyteller who writes regularly for Franciscan Media and the St. Anthony Messenger. He is the author of In the House of Rising Sounds (2023), Where the Colors Blend (2018), and collaborator on Franciscan Lectio (2022). He obtained his bachelor's degree in journalism and Bible from Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, and is pursuing a Master of Theological Studies degree from the University of San Diego's Franciscan School of Theology. Stephen's work can be found at