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Hitching Posts For The Trail Of Life: History, Theology, And Life

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Hitching Posts For The Trail Of Life: History, Theology, And LifeAlmost universally people have lived their lives under the influence of various events they encountered in life. Many found no significant meaning in such happenings at all and turned to a philosophy of nihilism. In Hitching Posts for the Trail of Life, William Allen Poe recalled his youthful life lived out during the Great Depression. He reflected on these experiences with a deep conviction that the providence of God had been active in his life in a

Almost universally people have lived their lives under the influence of various events they encountered in life. Many found no significant meaning in such happenings at all and turned to a philosophy of nihilism.

In Hitching Posts for the Trail of Life, William Allen Poe recalled his youthful life lived out during the Great Depression. He reflected on these experiences with a deep conviction that the providence of God had been active in his life in a telling manner. Recalling a youthful fondness for riding horses with a friend, he reminisced about a favorite spot where they hitched their horses and drank from a wonderful spring of water. It is his thesis that God provides hitching posts for life's pilgrimage where renewal and a greater clarity on life's direction is given. Each hitching post enlivened the author's spirituality, which facilitated him in living life to the fullest in service to others. It was a service rendered through the roles of pastor, missionary, and college professor and in the locales of Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia.

Hitching Posts for the Trail of Life is an autobiographical interpretation by an octogenarian minister as seen through the lens of history, religion, and life itself.

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William Allen Poe began life in 1926 in Bessemer, AL and grew up in Tuscaloosa County on a farm. At seventeen he entered Howard College (Samford). Following their graduation he married his college sweetheart, Beth Kelley, and proceeded to Louisville, Kentucky for seminary training. There he received the Bachelor of Divinity followed by a PhD in History from the University of Alabama. Further studies followed at Oxford, Manchester, and a Ford Foundation Research Grant to Africa. He has published Green W. Hartsfield: A Biography, and in more than three dozen academic journals. He and his wife have a son, a doctor in Kansas City, and a daughter, a teacher in Louisiana.

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★★★★★ 3
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★★★★★ 4
A fairly decent super hero romp
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★★★★★ 5
Silver Age Batman time trip
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Fun book. I was born at the very beginning of the Silver Age and had older brothers, so I was reading by four, and had great reading material available.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2025
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★★★★★ 5
A Baby Boomer dream come true!
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I love the Golden Age omnibus Batman series. However, for many of us baby boomers the Silver Age is what we’ve been craving. Those were exciting days back then, looking for the new issue of Batman or Detective Comics on the newsstand. One of the previous reviewers is correct, though, there are some missing issues between the last golden age omnibus and this, the first silver age omnibus, that need to be put into book form at some point. I certainly hope we get them. But more than anything I am really hoping that this will not be the first and last silver age omnibus. By my count, there are almost exactly the issues needed to make three more silver age volumes before we get to the “new look Batman,” which started in mid 1964. And frankly, I hope they continue on with a “new look” omnibus series as well. This first volume, though, was absolutely beautiful! The re-creation of these old panels is breathtaking. When you go back and look at the old dot matrix original issues and compare them to the re-printings contained within this omnibus…well…there simply is no comparison. Batman, the Silver Age Omnibus Volume One is practically as good as it gets. The only thing more I could have wished for would have been the inclusion of the old advertisements that decorated the pages of the original issues. Other than that, this book is perfect. Wow!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2022
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★★★★★ 5
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The book looks great and includes a massive amount of content; however, this is DC Batman Silver Age stories verses Marvel Silver Age stories. It was hard getting through some of the stories and did not make it through the entire book. I think I would have enjoyed the stories that came before this collection and/or the great Neal Adams Batman content. This era of batman stories was just silly and boring. But just my opinion.
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