September 26, 2019



“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing,
to contemplate the beautiful thing:
that is enough for one man's life.”

― T.S. Eliot, poet
T.S. Eliot was born on this day in 1888



***  The T.S. Eliot Film Festival!!! 
Four brief films based on
Eliot poems that you can watch in full





*** Kindle Ebook
Deal of the Day!
Dream Work: Poems
by Mary Oliver
Only $1.99!!!
 

 

New on Our Website...

*** Evangelicalism – Ten Books
for Assessing its Present and Future

In a piece for The Atlantic earlier this week, Alan Jacobs proposed that we perhaps have reached the end of evangelicalism.
In order to evaluate Jacobs’s proposal, we need to have a rich understanding of evangelicalism that draws upon history,
theology, and sociology.  Here are ten recent (or soon-to-be-released) books that can help us to cultivate this broad sort
of understanding, and to discern the future of evangelicalism (or the movement-formerly-known-as-evangelicalism).



*** David Fitch – The Church of Us Vs. Them – Feature Review

Irenic, Inclusive, and Incarnational Theology. A Feature Review of
The Church of Us vs. Them: Freedom from a Faith That Feeds on Making Enemies
David Fitch   (Hardcover: Brazos Press, 2019)  Reviewed by Leroy Seat



*** 5 Essential Ebook Deals for
Church Leaders [25 September 2019]

Here are 5 essential ebook deals that are worth checking out:
(Kathleen Norris, Barbara Ehrenreich, Len Sweet, MORE)



Book Giveaway! Jeremy Courtney
– Love Anyway [5 copies]

We’re super-excited to give away FIVE copies 
of this superb new book that released this week …    
Love Anyway: An Invitation Beyond a World that’s Scary as Hell
by Jeremy Courtney  (Paperback: Zondervan, 2019) 
Enter now to win a copy of this new book 


 

Ta-Nehisi Coates – Water Dancer – NPR Interview

One of the best new book releases of this week is:
The Water Dancer: A Novel  by Ta-Nehisi Coates
(Hardback: One World, 2019)
Listen to an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates
from NPR’s Fresh Air:

In Case You Missed It...

*** New Book Releases –
Week of 23 September 2019

Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out:
Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Bentley Hart, Kate DiCamillo, Chris Ware, MORE

ERRATA:  The prayer attributed to Phyllis Tickle in Monday's email, which does appear in
Tickle's DIVINE HOURS, was not written by her, but rather came from the Book of Common Prayer. 
We regret the error.