The Gospel of Doubt

The Gospel of Doubt is a cycle of persona poems from Confluence Poet Greg Wright. Available March 24, 2021.

Eventually, true discipleship may emerge from a cycle of boasting and emotional self-flagellation, of professions of faith and bitter denial. Ultimately, there is no path other than being sifted like wheat. The chaff gets very deep.

The good news is that doubt is a sure sign that sifting is under way: that where there is chaff, there is grain.

These are the collected poems of Simon Bar-Jonah, also known to history as Simon Peter. Culled from the hundreds of complete verse and fragments extant, these most “finished” works span the years of Simon’s apprenticeship with Jesus of Nazareth.

You will not encounter here the sanitized saint of stained-glass windows and hagiography. These are the words of a deeply troubled man struggling with brokenness and pride, and encountering a kind of holiness completely outside his prior experience. And he would also likely observe that the Jesus with whom he walked was outside all our experience, as well.

“A brilliant collection of poems in the voice of Simon Peter. Greg Wright elegantly captures the penitent but positive heart in all of us who stumble day by day along the rocky path to salvation.” ~Jonathan Bock, Grace Hill Media

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Click here to download a PDF of notes on the poems in The Gospel of Doubt.