Joshua Luke Smith

Praise for This is the Main Event

I try to read (and watch and listen to) everything Joshua Luke Smith puts out. He's fast becoming the poet laureate of a new generation. There are thoughts, phrases, lines in here which will soon become your friends ...
Pete Greig, bestselling author of How to Pray and How to Hear God

There are very few writers who can combine raw, even painful honesty about how brutal life can feel with a grounded hope. Joshua Luke Smith is one of them. This book is beautiful, humanizing and profoundly nourishin ...
Elizabeth Oldfield, author of Fully Alive and podcast host of The Sacred

You had me at the title – ‘This is the main event’ is the kind of phrase I’d like to tattoo on my arm – and my spirit. But the excellent title is just the beginning: this is a thoughtful, artful, soulful meditation ...
Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author

I try to read (and watch and listen to) everything Joshua Luke Smith puts out. He's fast becoming the poet laureate of a new generation. There are thoughts, phrases, lines in here which will soon become your friends ...
Pete Greig, bestselling author of How to Pray and How to Hear God

There are very few writers who can combine raw, even painful honesty about how brutal life can feel with a grounded hope. Joshua Luke Smith is one of them. This book is beautiful, humanizing and profoundly nourishin ...
Elizabeth Oldfield, author of Fully Alive and podcast host of The Sacred

You had me at the title – ‘This is the main event’ is the kind of phrase I’d like to tattoo on my arm – and my spirit. But the excellent title is just the beginning: this is a thoughtful, artful, soulful meditation ...
Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author

I try to read (and watch and listen to) everything Joshua Luke Smith puts out. He's fast becoming the poet laureate of a new generation. There are thoughts, phrases, lines in here which will soon become your friends ...
Pete Greig, bestselling author of How to Pray and How to Hear God

There are very few writers who can combine raw, even painful honesty about how brutal life can feel with a grounded hope. Joshua Luke Smith is one of them. This book is beautiful, humanizing and profoundly nourishin ...
Elizabeth Oldfield, author of Fully Alive and podcast host of The Sacred

You had me at the title – ‘This is the main event’ is the kind of phrase I’d like to tattoo on my arm – and my spirit. But the excellent title is just the beginning: this is a thoughtful, artful, soulful meditation ...
Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author

I try to read (and watch and listen to) everything Joshua Luke Smith puts out. He's fast becoming the poet laureate of a new generation. There are thoughts, phrases, lines in here which will soon become your friends ...
Pete Greig, bestselling author of How to Pray and How to Hear God

There are very few writers who can combine raw, even painful honesty about how brutal life can feel with a grounded hope. Joshua Luke Smith is one of them. This book is beautiful, humanizing and profoundly nourishin ...
Elizabeth Oldfield, author of Fully Alive and podcast host of The Sacred

You had me at the title – ‘This is the main event’ is the kind of phrase I’d like to tattoo on my arm – and my spirit. But the excellent title is just the beginning: this is a thoughtful, artful, soulful meditation ...
Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author

Joshua Luke Smith

Praise for This is the Main Event

I try to read (and watch and listen to) everything Joshua Luke Smith puts out. He's fast becoming the poet laureate of a new generation. There are thoughts, phrases, lines in here which will soon become your friends ...

There are very few writers who can combine raw, even painful honesty about how brutal life can feel with a grounded hope. Joshua Luke Smith is one of them. This book is beautiful, humanizing and profoundly nourishin ...

You had me at the title – ‘This is the main event’ is the kind of phrase I’d like to tattoo on my arm – and my spirit. But the excellent title is just the beginning: this is a thoughtful, artful, soulful meditation ...

I try to read (and watch and listen to) everything Joshua Luke Smith puts out. He's fast becoming the poet laureate of a new generation. There are thoughts, phrases, lines in here which will soon become your friends ...

There are very few writers who can combine raw, even painful honesty about how brutal life can feel with a grounded hope. Joshua Luke Smith is one of them. This book is beautiful, humanizing and profoundly nourishin ...

You had me at the title – ‘This is the main event’ is the kind of phrase I’d like to tattoo on my arm – and my spirit. But the excellent title is just the beginning: this is a thoughtful, artful, soulful meditation ...

I try to read (and watch and listen to) everything Joshua Luke Smith puts out. He's fast becoming the poet laureate of a new generation. There are thoughts, phrases, lines in here which will soon become your friends ...

There are very few writers who can combine raw, even painful honesty about how brutal life can feel with a grounded hope. Joshua Luke Smith is one of them. This book is beautiful, humanizing and profoundly nourishin ...

You had me at the title – ‘This is the main event’ is the kind of phrase I’d like to tattoo on my arm – and my spirit. But the excellent title is just the beginning: this is a thoughtful, artful, soulful meditation ...

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