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Vital Conversations – Podcast Roundup – July 5

Five New Must-Listen Podcast Episodes!!!
Bibliotherapy, Poetry, ERB Editor Chris Smith,
Dominique Gilliard, MORE

Our Feature Review for this week:
Meeting Ourselves in the Mystics.
A Review of   Mystics and Misfits: Meeting God
through St. Francis and Other Unlikely Saints
by Christiana Peterson  (Paperback: Herald Press, 2018) 
Reviewed by Tammy Perlmutter

*** 5 Essential Ebook Deals for Church Leaders

( Christine Pohl, Eugene Peterson, Kathleen Norris, MORE )

Where do our desires come from?

Alasdair MacIntyre reflects on this question, drawing from the work of
Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle...




Living, Loving, Dancing, Praying, and Contemplating.

What is the life of a monk like? Richard Goode reviews the new book
In Praise of the Useless Life by poet Paul Quenon...


 

An excellent new book on the present economic
situation for families in the United States:
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
by Alissa Quart   (Hardback: Ecco, 2018.)
LISTEN to an interview that the author did with NPR's Terry Gross...

In Case You Missed It...
 

*** 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!) :