David Russell Mosley

Ordinary Time
27 January 2017
The Edge of Elfland

Hudson, New Hampshire

Dear Readers,

I am pleased to announce that I have just signed (and will soon be posting) a contract to publish my book Slaying Dragons and Seeing Visions. This is the story of my son’s cancer treatment and how during it, I learned to see the reality more fully. The drive behind the book is to share again the story of the vision of angels I received during Edwyn’s cancer treatment. The book will hopefully come out some time late next Autumn or early next Winter with Wipf and Stock Publishers. The forward, I am even more pleased to announce, will be written by my PhD supervisor, and the priest who succored my family during our darkest hour, Professor Simon Oliver of Durham University.

But it’s more than that as well. I feel many books like this exist, but I suppose you could say I have two twists. First of all, I am a theologian. This does not make me a holier man than others––though it probably should, and that’s my fault––but it does mean that I have certain amount of training that can help me not only cope with what happened, but to articulate as well. The second is the centrality that the Eucharist and liturgy played throughout Edwyn’s treatment. I was able to take solace in the forms of the liturgy and the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

I feel very much that I need to tell this story. I hope that it will help explain how Lauren and I survived what has been the most traumatic experience of our lives to date (and we still have so much life left to live, God willing). Second, however, I hope that this book will be a balm to others. I know my own story has a happy ending when so many others do not. But I hope I can use that, can use our experience to help articulate the pain, the joy, and the solace we found in Christ’s body. Furthermore, I hope that this book will help people see the world the way I have learned, and have constantly to re-learn, to see it. There are more things on heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophies and I hope, unworthy as I am, that I can shed a little light on it.

Sincerely,
David