About the book
CONSPIRING WITH GOD
Edited and illustrated by Richard McKnight, Ph.D.
Expected date of publication: 10/2010
Illustrated
© 2010 Richard McKnight
Request for Submissions
Concept
Do you write? If so, you are invited to submit content for a book entitled, Conspiring With God. The word conspire means “to breathe with.” In what way or ways do you “breathe with God” for the benefit of others? You may interpret this theme as liberally as you choose.
This book will be illustrated with Richard McKnight’s artwork. You can his work at www.richardmcknight.com.
From Richard McKnight:
The concept is simple: you write, I illustrate. The theme is how you cooperate with some higher principle to do good in the world. You do not have to be a Mother Theresa or Gandhi to participate in this project; you just have to be a decent person who is devoted, in some way to helping others or making the world a better place. If you manage to do good through your livlihood, fabulous; submit a piece about that. If your means of doing good is through voluntary effort, even better. Did someone help you? Then write about that.
Participating in this project will be a mom who has done good by raising four children and is proud of who they have become. Another person does good in the world via participation in a small community orchestra. She describes her talent as minimal, but her community loves the orchestra. A third person has been disabled most of her life yet finds ways to help others on a daily basis. Another makes but $35,000/year but still ministers to the poor every week; she does not consider herself poor at all. An executive coach tells—through poetry—how she helped a Type A client work through his terror of retirement. Finally, a CEO writes about his having created a wholesome workplace that people love to come to each day.
Who Benefits?
One of the participants in this project is Mary Trainer, a Sister of Mercy who has turned her childhood home into a retreat center that serves the poor and those who minister to the poor. The center is called “Cranaleith,” (CRAN-a-leeth) Gaelic for sanctuary of trees. 50% of the profits of this project will go to support an expansion project at Cranaleith. (Learn more about Cranaleith at www.cranaleith.org.)
