Rachel Held Evans, GM Hopkins, Great Outdoors Books, Mary Oliver, MORE - June 7 - ERB Daily Book Morsel
Published: Fri, 06/07/19
June 7, 2019
“If you are looking for verses with which to support slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which
to abolish slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women,
you will find them. If you are looking for for verses with which to liberate or honor women, you will find them.
If you are looking for reasons to wage war, you will find them. If you are looking for reasons to promote peace,
you will find them. If you are looking for an out-dated, irrelevant ancient text, you will find it.
If you are looking for truth, believe me, you will find it. This is why there are times when the most instructive question to bring to the text
is not "what does it say?", but "what am I looking for?" I suspect Jesus knew this when he said,
"ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened."
If you want to do violence in this world, you will always find the weapons. If you want to heal, you will always find the balm.”
― Rachel Held Evans
*** Saturday June 8 marks the birthday
of the late writer, Rachel Held Evans...
Remember her life with this 2015 interview
that we did for the release of her superb book
SEARCHING FOR SUNDAY
*** Kindle Ebook Deal of the Day!
Dear White Christians
by Jennifer Harvey,
an important book
on faith and race!
Only $1.99!!!
New on Our Website...
Our Favorite Outdoors Books!
June is Great Outdoors Month in the United States…
Celebrate by getting outside and reading a good outdoors book!
Here are some of our favorites:
Annie Dillard, Robert Macfarlane, Belden Lane, Rachel Carson, MORE
(What other books would you add to this list?)
Melissa Florer-Bixler –
Fire By Night [Feature Review]
Reading the Old Testament… as a Christian
A Feature Review of Fire by Night:
Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament
by Melissa Florer-Bixler (Paperback: Herald Press, 2019)
Reviewed by MaryAnn McKibben Dana
Mary Oliver – Assessing Her Legacy
as a Poet [New Yorker Conversation]
Mary Oliver’s work was rarely critically
acclaimed, and yet it sold well and connected deeply with readers.
Listen to this brief conversation, and tell us
what you think of Mary Oliver’s poetry:
Darren Dochuk – Oil and Religion in American History [Video]
One of this week’s best new book releases is:
Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
by Darren Dochuk (Hardback: Basic Books, 2019.)
This brief video, although recorded several years ago,
offers a superb introduction to this new book…
Tomorrow, June 8th, marks the 130th anniversary
of the death of Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins
Remember his extraordinary life and work with
Five Favorite Poems that He Wrote...
In Case You Missed It...
TWO HUGE EBOOK SALES!!!
*** Amazon Monthly Kindle Ebook Sale! [June 2019]
Amazon recently released their monthly ebook sale for June 2019…
(Most ebooks in this sale are $3.99 or less!)
Here are 20 of the Very Best Deals for Christian Readers from this sale…
Wendell Berry, Thomas Merton, Shauna Niequist, Frederick Buechner, MORE
*** Eerdmans Theology Ebook Sale [June 2019]
Some excellent theology ebook deals in the Eerdmans sale for June 2019…
Here are some of our recommended titles…
Miroslav Volf, Dorothy Bass, Richard Hays, MORE
Here's to energizing reading today!
Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books