Burnt Offerings | Wilderness Readings for Lectionary Year A (Brooks)

For the Singed and the Burned-Out

To gaze at the dumpster fire of injustice, to practice joy and love while acrid smoke burns your eyes: this is the labor of faith.

Come, you who are burned out. Come, you who feel less like a phoenix in the fire and more like burnt toast. Come, you who are singed by the sun's daily glare. Come and drink from the well of shared stories, remembering that God is present in this wilderness.

You Are Wholly Loved

For those who worry that they have failed life, or who rage that life has failed them, Burnt Offerings is an understanding companion, holding space for pain as well as hope.

"Belief is no small matter.
To embody hope together
is to engage in holy audacity."

Burnt Offerings sits alongside the readings of lectionary Year A, adding modern reflections to each Sunday and holy day. As with her first book, Another Scroll, poet Amy G. S. A. Brooks writes with the sheer honesty and expansive hospitality that undergird holy, revolutionary love. 

Ideal for use in weekly worship and in personal devotions.

Preorder today for late-July delivery.

About the Author

Amy G. S. A. Brooks is a cisgender, queer, Australian-born poet and pastor, who loves a good cup of hot tea and hates mornings. Deeply familiar with grief and trauma, Amy finds truth and meaning in the spaces where humanity encounters the Divine.

Paperback: 136 pages
ISBN 978-0-8298-0076-0
August 15, 2025