*** Lectionary Poetry –
Lent Week 3 (Year A)

New poems posted for this coming Sunday, Week 3 of Lent...
Including ones by Madeleine L'Engle, Christian Wiman, Jericho Brown, 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 9 March 2020

Here are a few March 2020 book releases from
this week that are worth checking out: 
W. David O. Taylor, Rebecca Solnit, Carolyn Forche, MORE

Barbara Crooker – The Book
of Kells: Poems – Brief Review

Steeped in a Tradition of Beauty. A Brief Review of
The Book of Kells: Poems  by Barbara Crooker
(Paperback: Cascade Books, 2019)
Reviewed by Obi Martin





In Case You Missed It... 

Coronavirus – Epidemics from History
Set it in Context – A Reading Guide

With the non-stop stream of news about the coronavirus and its effects around
the globe, it is helpful for us to pause and set it in the context of other epidemics
from history. Here are a few book recommendations that tell the history of
some of the worst epidemics that the world has known….

***Eerdmans Theology
Ebook Sale – March 2020

Some excellent theology ebook deals in the Eerdmans sale for
March 2020 that is running now…
Stanley Hauerwas, N.T. Wright, Christine Pohl, MORE

 

Correction... 
(This post was included in Friday's email with an incorrect link. Sorry!)

*** Ten Women Saints Whose
Stories You Should Know.

March is Women’s History Month, and while I am a bit queasy about relegating
women’s history to a single month out of the year, it is a good time to remind
ourselves that we need to be working harder throughout the year to know the
stories of women who have followed faithfully in the way of Jesus.

Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books