Octavia Butler, Rebecca Solnit, Lauren Winner, Poetry, MORE - June 22 - ERB Daily Book Morsel
Published: Fri, 06/22/18
June 22, 2018
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”
― Octavia Butler,
Novelist, who was born on this day
*** Brief Intro to Octavia Butler's Work
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Rebecca Solnit – Introductory Reading Guide
June 24 marks the birthday of renowned American social critic Rebecca Solnit.
In honor of the occasion, we offer this introductory reading guide to her work.
Solnit has been featured on our list of 10 Social Critics that Christians Should Read
Our Feature Review for this week:
Standing Up for Ourselves.
A Review of Resist and Persist: Faith and
the Fight for Equality by Erin Wathen.
(Paperback: WJK Books, 2018)
Reviewed by D.S. Leiter
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Rosaria Butterfield –
The Gospel Comes With a House Key [Review]
Prioritizing Hospitality. A Review of The Gospel Comes with a House Key:
Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
By Rosaria Butterfield (Hardcover: Crossway, 2018)
Reviewed by Justin Cober-Lake
Anna Akhmatova – Four Poems
Saturday June 22 is the birthday of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova
Here are four elegant poems by her…
Leslie Leyland Fields – The Wonder Years [Review]
Finding God in All Matters. A Review of
The Wonder Years: 40 Women Over 40 on Aging, Faith, Beauty, and Strength
Leslie Leyland Fields, editor (Paperback: Kregel Publications, 2018)
Reviewed by Cynthia Beach
Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books