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5 Essential Ebook Deals for Church Leaders – 4 October 2018

Here are 5 essential ebooks on sale now that are worth checking out:
( Dallas Willard, Lauren Winner, Bonhoeffer, The Brothers K,  MORE )




Vital Conversations – Podcast Roundup – October 4

Five New Must-Listen Podcast Episodes!!!
NT Wright, Sarah Smarsh, The Patron Saint of Libraries,
Aaron Niequist, MORE


 
Michelle Alexander – Video Intro to Her Work

October 7 is the birthday of Michelle Alexander, the noted author and lawyer…
In honor of the occasion, we offer this series of brief video clips 
that introduce her work on race and the criminal justice system.
Alexander is author of the important book:
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness




Our Feature Review for this week:
What it Means to be a Person (Rather than an Individual).
A Review of Being Human
by Rowan Williams (Paperback: Eerdmans, 2018) 
Reviewed by Rob O'Lynn.




Siva Vaidhyanathan – Anti-Social Media [Review]

What it was designed to do. A Review of 
Anti-social Media: How Facebook 
Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
by Siva Vaidhyanathan   (Hardback: Oxford UP, 2018)
Reviewed by Jeff Nelson




Sarah Smarsh – Heartland [NPR Review]

NPR’s book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews this excellent new book…
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke 
in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
Listen to the review.


 

In Remembrance... 
Yesterday marks the Feast Day of St. Francis... 
Here are three of our very favorite poems about Francis, 
one of the Church's most beloved saints!



 

Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books