The Growing Season

Nelson Boschman

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The Growing Season explores the intersection between vineyard, cellar, tasting room, and soul. It's a closer look at the transformation that occurs from grape to glass, and what that process can teach us about what it means to flourish as human beings.

Book Details

Publisher: Nelson Boschman
Publish Date: May 16th, 2022
Pages: 246
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.56in - 0.70lb
EAN: 9781778083105
Categories: • Christian Living - Spiritual Growth• Memoirs• Beverages - Alcoholic - Wine

About the Author

Boschman, Nelson: - Nelson Boschman is a pastor, writer, spiritual director, jazz musician, wine enthusiast, husband, and father of one in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the pastor of spiritual formation at Artisan Church, and a partner of SoulStream.org, a community that seeks to nurture contemplative experience with Christ, leading to inner freedom and loving service. Connect with him at NelsonBoschman.com and follow him on Instagram @nelsonboschman.

Praise for this book

Thought provoking, sincere and approachable. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to delve deeper into the possible reason why humans have been obsessed with wine for thousands of years. Nelson takes the reader on a journey through the parallels of wine and the human soul. He creates a safe space around two complex topics and guides the reader into deeply thinking about how appreciating wines could lead us to live a more worldly spiritual life, like Jesus did. Great read!

-Jaclyn Misch, DipWSET Candidate, Masters in Wine Management, research team, Karen MacNeil's "The Wine Bible", wine educator, Napa Valley Wine Academy

The Growing Season arrests you-"Pay attention! Attend!"-for there is a world of magic all around us. It is always there, but you have to get your feet dirty to see it, find it, taste it. This is Nelson's journey, one we take with him into a deeper love of wine and of Jesus. This book cultivates this deeper, more attentive love.

-Christopher Mark, founder and President of Vintality, a viticulture company that uses technology to uncover and reveal terroir in all its forms

Through the imagery and process of grape becoming wine, Boschman invites us to see our spiritual journeys as rooted in the cycles of life and the rhythms of the earth. Found in the humble and accessible day-to-day moments of our lives, our handiwork, our interactions with others, and the experience of our senses, he invites us to see that there is nowhere else we need to be to encounter ourselves, each other, and our Creator.

-Hillary L. McBride, PhD, Psychologist, Author, Podcaster

As a foot-crushed grape still in spiritual fermentation, I find that Boschman's/Jesus's wine-soul imagery resonates deeply. Nelson is a wise friend and experienced vintner who creatively guides faith shifts like mine. He clarified my own long process as a Welch's^TM grape Baptist into the deep dessert reds of the Orthodox chalice, all with a smile on stained and satisfied lips. A delightful read!

-Bradley Jersak, Dean of Theology & Culture, St. Stephen's University, author of A More Christlike God

Nelson Boschman's The Growing Season, like some wines, masks its strength by a deceptive smoothness. I felt, from beginning to end, like I was being guided through a tasting by a knowledgeable friend. But at the end I realized I had more than tasted: I had savoured a full bottle of wisdom about what it takes to make both a fine wine-and a fine soul. "Wine makes the heart glad," says the Psalmist. And so does this book.

-Dr. Loren Wilkinson, professor emeritus of philosophy and interdisciplinary studies, Regent College (Vancouver, BC, Canada).

This book will do more than encourage you to reach for a glass with friends. It will encourage you to "make friends with mystery." Biblical faith would be unrecognizable without its love for wine. Nelson Boschman's book will show you why.

-Jason Byassee, Butler Chair in Homiletics and Biblical Hermeneutics, Vancouver School of Theology, long-time contributor to The Christian Century