Published by the Henry Institute, this book celebrates the life and work of Paul Henry in the words of people who knew him well. Nationally syndicated columnist David S. Broder contributes a foreword, and there are nine other essays by friends of Paul Henry such as Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield; North Carolina congressman David Price; Michigan congressman Fred Upton; Paul Hillegonds, former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives; and Fuller Seminary president Richard Mouw. - Publisher.
This is a biography of Paul Henry's life and artistic achievements, especially his idyllic landscape paintings of the west of Ireland. It interweaves the life of his talented wife, Grace, and explores his friendships and associations with Paris and Dublin.
Bestselling hilarious memoir from New Zealand's most controversial media star. Paul Henry is a natural-born story teller who spins a great yarn, and who says, 'I'll apologise for hurting people's feelings but I'll never apologise for being outrageous'.Paul Henry is a natural-born story teller who spins a great yarn, and who says, 'I'll apologise for hurting people's feelings but I'll never apologise for being outrageous'. From the man whose controversial comments on TV divided the country, and almost caused an international incident, comes this very funny memoir. Packed with stories from his eventful childhood and his long and adventurous career in journalism, this is a gripping, often hilarious and always entertaining read. It gives a fascinating insight into the complex character of Paul Henry. He's surprising — he doesn't subscribe to any expected set of beliefs, he's an individual with contradictory opinions. He's bold — he set himself up as an international news correspondent working out of his Masterton lounge, watching CNN and jetting off to the latest hotspot. He's talked himself into getting interviews with people as diverse as Peter Ustinov and the Prime Minister of Malaysia; he was there for the funerals of Diana and Mother Theresa; he's been thrown into jail in Iraq. He's versatile — starting with drama school, then broadcasting at the BBC, head of Radio NZ, standing for parliament against Georgina Beyer, international correspondent — as well as protesting at Mururoa and running an antique shop and his own radio station. And, he's all-round entertaining!
Boy Running is made up of the sort of lyrics Henry has specialized in throughout his career. His diction is straightforward, musical but spare, his image-making rich, surprising and rewarding. Henry's rich, wise and regretful poems should be better known than they are." – Times Literary Supplement "I thoroughly enjoyed Boy Running. If anything, Henry's lyricism has been distilled still further by his suffering, and has led to his most ambitious work to date. I very much recommend you get hold of a copy." – Matthew Stewart "This is a book whose power is extended with each re-reading. Much of its conviction comes from Henry's often startling ability to make us look afresh at familiar things in ways which give us a glimpse into the emotions of others." – Martin Bartholomew-Biggs Paul Henry has gained a reputation as one of the best poets in the UK. Boy Running is his beautiful sixth collection and the first to follow The Brittle Sea: New and Selected Poems. We begin in a 'Studio Flat'. Cut adrift by marital break-up, the poet must sort through the emotional fallout and the various 'chattels' left behind; a sea of characteristic props: tables, lamps, metronomes, pianos, guitars. The poet's sons are at the heart of this section where pathos is balanced by humour amidst the characters of a small country town. A second section moves to the Welsh coastal town of Henry's childhood, Aberystwyth, opening with a long poem, 'Kicking the Stone' set in the summer of 1969. Also in this section are some familiar characters from earlier poems such as Brown Helen and Catrin Sands. In the final sequence we meet 'Davy Blackrock': washed-up songwriter and modern day alter ego of Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock), alias David Owen (1720-1749), the blind, 18th century harpist and composer who fell asleep on a hill and dreamt the famous song which bears his name. In contrast to David of the White Rock, Davy Blackrock, 'star of an ashen town', drags his guitar from street to hotel to bedsit, an unsettled ghost who dreams of the perfect song.
Paul Henry reflects on his life and times in this homage to the land of the slightly shabby stars and stripes. Despite his best intentions, Paul Henry has written his third book. It's a charming and eccentric ramble through the United States and back to New Zealand during the Covid-19 pandemic. There are two weddings, an election, a new TV show and his love affair with Palm Springs, sad desert motels, road trips and other passions. A fascinating window into the intriguing world of Paul Henry.
Adventurous and mischievous adolescent friend’s experiences lead them into a series of events and suspense far beyond what they ever could have imagined! While fishing off the rocks of Lake Michigan, they observe a Scuba Diving Class on the nearby beach, which leads them to become certified divers several years later, where they become involved with some unsavory and dangerous characters all the way from Belize! Circumstances bring these characters back to Southport, WI. and to the Church Bell Tower where events just fall into place, culminating into one perilous situation after another! Their lives will never be the same!!
Have you been hurt by the church? Do you feel the word of God is being misrepresented? In Back to the Basics: It's God's Way or the Highway, author Joseph Paul Henry seeks to provide hope to those who have been hurt by the church and show there is a side of the church that still loves your soul. By addressing thirty key topics affecting the church today, Henry suggests solutions to the problems facing contemporary Christianity. Through this discussion, he believes bridges to understanding can be built that will bring all followers of Christ together, fill the needs of all parishioners, and help people become saved to fulfill the legacy that Christ died for, while at the same time helping them to keep the faith in God's plan. Back to the Basics communicates the importance of returning to the foundations of the church-foundations that have been lost in the last thirty years. It provides a plan to refresh the church body memory and bring our lives back to the basics of faith.
In this virtuoso collection, Paul Henry, poacher-like, tracks the journeys of the heart through landscape, love and loss. He takes his place as one of the most important Welsh poets now writing." – Carol Ann Duffy "This haunting, elegaic collection, about music, and made of music, leaves a reader's mind full of phrases, in both senses – verbal, and tonal – and exactitudes that catch and lodge in the memory." – Gillian Clarke From the sea of the poet's childhood to the stillness of a canal walked in middle age, The Glass Aisle moves between rage and stillness, past and present, music and silence. In the book's title poem, a telephone engineer repairs a line that crosses a canal to the site of an old workhouse. Tormented by the voices of former "inmates", he unwittingly connects the centuries, setting free the Victorian ghosts of poacher John Moonlight, lone parent Mary Thomas, and a host of others who haunt the poem's present-day walker. Elsewhere in this moving collection, love poems, elegies and familiar coastline "visitors", Brown Helen, Catrin Sands... define a nineteen-sixties childhood; a long poem, 'The Hesitant Song', "orchestrates silence" while playing "the sea's soft pedal" to convey the loss of a mother's songs. Lyrical and humane in its observations, The Glass Aisle is rich in the hallmarks readers have come to admire in Henry's poetry.
The power of God's grace is greater than any power of the will a person can generate on his own. For anyone who would turn from the tragedy of a wrong and dying life and a meaningless existence, there is only one answer—do whatever is necessary to receive God's grace. The Light of the Son reveals the truth behind the lie upon which the present world was founded: Man has no personal responsibility to God. Under the sway of this great lie, the human race is constantly diverted from the Light of Life, and instead lives in a shadow land of doubt and vulnerability. The Light of Life—the supreme gift of God to mankind—doesn't come from some cosmic flashlight, but from the power of God's Word. Join author Paul Henry as he shares the mysteries of the Light of God, and discover for yourself the gospel buried beneath the weight of religious teachings that have been popularized by churches for centuries. The Light of the Son is the result of a lifetime spent separating mere religion from the Light that does not fail. Author Paul Henry graduated cum laude from a California college with a degree in Theology. After less than two years in the ministry, he returned his license and set out to first become a Christian, and secondly a minister.
Have you been hurt by the church? Do you feel the word of God is being misrepresented? In Back to the Basics: Its Gods Way or the Highway, author Joseph Paul Henry seeks to provide hope to those who have been hurt by the church and show there is a side of the church that still loves your soul. By addressing thirty key topics affecting the church today, Henry suggests solutions to the problems facing contemporary Christianity. Through this discussion, he believes bridges to understanding can be built that will bring all followers of Christ together, fill the needs of all parishioners, and help people become saved to fulfill the legacy that Christ died for, while at the same time helping them to keep the faith in Gods plan. Back to the Basics communicates the importance of returning to the foundations of the churchfoundations that have been lost in the last thirty years. It provides a plan to refresh the church body memory and bring our lives back to the basics of faith.
This booklet of Essays and Memoirs describes personal, educational and professional experiences by the Author. One experience includes A Brand New University or The VERY FIRST Class Day at the new campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in June 1973! Other Memoirs relate to cultural, university teaching, research and personal experiences during four Fulbright Scholar Awards in Central America, Colombia and Peru. A visit to High School Days includes education, summer and mine work experiences in Grant County, New Mexico. Creighton Days summarizes a fine liberal education. Emphasized are Friendships, Colleagues, work experiences and unique relationships with the Creighton Jesuit Fathers and the Cornish Family in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of Americas foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death. Lang was concerned above all with safeguarding the purity of musical knowledge as reflected in both scholarship and performance. Whether addressing his fellow musicologists or the general public, he expressed a broadly humanistic conception of musicology in his erudite and entertaining writings on such diverse subjects as Bach and Handel, the historical veracity of the film Amadeus, Marxist theory and music, and the controversial issue of authenticity in performance.
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