*** Memento Mori – Five Poems for Lent

We remember our mortality with five poems for Lent on the theme of
memento mori … Including poems by Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, Mary Szybist, MORE




*** 5 Essential Ebook Deals
for Church Leaders – 28 February 2020

Here are 5 essential February 2020 ebook deals that are worth checking out:
( Wendell Berry, Alice Walker, Jonathan Merritt, MORE)


 

Joanna Kavenna – Zed –

A Novel – Feature Review

Something No Technology Will Ever Be Able to Reproduce
A Feature Review of Zed - A Novel by Joanna Kavenna
(Hardback: Doubleday, 2020)
Reviewed by Julie Sumner

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*** 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.



*** 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