Simone Weil, Podcast Roundup, Ebook Deals, B. Ehrenreich, MORE - August 24- ERB Daily Book Morsel
Published: Fri, 08/24/18
August 24, 2018
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil, philosopher
who died on this day in 1943
Read this brief intro to Weil's work!
New on Our Website...
***Love Podcasts?
Vital Conversations - Our Podcast Roundup
Five New Must-Listen Podcast Episodes!!!
Sarah Bessey on Madeleine L’Engle, Localism,
Lies My Teacher Taught Me, MORE?
Barbara Ehrenreich – Video Introduction to Her Work
Sunday Aug. 26 is the birthday of Barbara Ehrenreich,
one of the most important social critics of our day…
*** 5 Essential Ebook Deals for Church Leaders
( Sarah Bessey, John Steinbeck, Peter Rollins, Louie Giglio, MORE )
Our Feature Review for this week:
Transformation through Play.
A Review of and Response to Learning To Speak God From Scratch:
Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing—and How We Can Revive Them.
by Jonathan Merritt (Paperback: Convergent, 2018)
Reviewed by Chris Schumerth.
Best New Book Releases –Week of 20 August 2018
Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out:
Jeremy Begbie, James Baldwin, Fantasy Novel by Robert Jackson Bennett, MORE
Weaving a Life of Relationship and Experience.
Our review of Mentoring: Biblical, Theological, and Practical Perspectives
Dean K. Thompson / D. Cameron Murchison, Eds.
Reviewed by Jennifer Burns Lewis.
Here's to energizing reading today!
Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books