*** Lectionary Poetry –
Lent Week 1 (Year A)

New poems posted for this coming Sunday, Week 1 of Lent...
Including ones by Thomas Traherne, Lucille Clifton, John O'Donohue, MORE.
We hope that these poems will be fruitful not only for preachers who will be
preaching these texts on the coming Sunday, but also for church
members in the pews, as way to prime our minds for encountering the biblical texts.




*** New Book Releases –
Week of 24 February 2020

Here are a few new book releases from this week
that are worth checking out: Martin Robinson,
Creation Care, Climate Change, Novels, MORE



Christiana Figueres / Tom Rivett-Carnac –
The Future We Choose – NPR Interview

This is an important book that will be released tomorrow.
Listen to an NPR interview with the authors:
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
Christiana Figueres / Tom Rivett-Carnac
(Hardback: Knopf, 2020)
 

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*** Lent 2020 – A Season of Lament
– Book Recommendations

We live in a broken world that inflicts violence on other humans,
other creatures, and creation as a whole. And often the people of God
participate in this violence as much or more than our fellow humans
that do not follow in the way of Jesus. We have much to lament:
racism, sexism, homophobia, consumerism, environmental degradation,
and on and on. As we lament during the season of Lent, we recommend
reading one or more of these books that narrate history in a way that
gives shape to our laments.




Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books