Parker Palmer, Georges Benanos, Jean Vanier, Poetry, MORE - July 5 - ERB Daily Book Morsel

Published: Thu, 07/05/18
















 

July 5, 2018


“But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power.
For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety,
I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.” 


― Georges Bernanos, 
Novelist, who died on this day, 1948


*** A reflection on Bernanos's classic novel
Diary of a Country Priest




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*** Book Giveaway – Parker Palmer – On the Brink… [5 copies]

Last week marked the release of Parker Palmer’s newest book!  
A superb book full of wisdom (and poetry!) aimed to help us age gracely…
We’re giving away FIVE  copies of:
On the Brink of Everything:Grace, Gravity and Getting Old
Parker Palmer  (Hardback: Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
Enter now to win a copy of this book (It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!) :

 

 

St. Peter of Luxembourg – [Feast Day – July 5]

Today, July 5, is the feast day of St. Peter of Luxembourg, a 14th century saint
known for his extreme asceticism and also his extreme devotion to the poor and downtrodden.
His story... 




New Book Releases – Week of 2 July 2018 – Jean Vanier, More

Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out:
Jean Vanier, Stanley Hauerwas, Fiction, Race, MORE





Tom Hunley – Here Lies: Poems [Review]

Dancing with Death.  A review of  Here Lies: Poems
By Tom Hunley  (Paperback: Stephen F. Austin State UPress, 2018)
Reviewed by Aarik Danielsen

 

Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books