Book Giveaway, Rebecca Solnit, Walter Brueggemann, Michael Polanyi, MORE - March 11 - ERB Daily Book Morsel

Published: Wed, 03/11/20













 



March 11, 2020


 

“As human beings, we must inevitably see the universe
from a centre lying within ourselves and speak about it
in terms of a human language shaped by the exigencies of
human intercourse. Any attempt rigorously to eliminate our human
perspective from our picture of the world must lead to absurdity.”


 Michael Polanyi ,
philosopher


Today is Michael Polanyi´s birthday (born 1891) ...

 
*** Our introductory reading
gu
ide to Michael 
Polanyi´s work 






*** Kindle Ebook
Deal of the Day!

Men Explain
Things to Me
by Rebecca 
Solnit 

Only $1.99 !!!

 




 

New on our website... 

Book Giveaway! W. David O. Taylor
– Open and Unafraid [5 Copies]

We’re excited to run this giveaway of FIVE copies of this superb new book
by W. David O. Taylor, which is one of the best new book releases
of this week… Open and Unafraid –  The Psalms as A Guide to Life. 
Enter now to win a copy of this new book

 


Walter Brueggemann
– Truth and Hope – Brief Review


A Blueprint for the Church to Face the Tensions within Society. 
A Brief Review of  Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age. 
Walter Brueggemann. Westminster John Knox Press, 2020. 
Reviewed by Billy Hinshaw




Rebecca Solnit – Recollections
of My Nonexistence – Interview


Listen to a public radio interview with
Rebecca Solnit about this new memoir. 






In Case You Missed It... 

*** 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.

 

***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


 






Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books