*** Book Giveaway! Two New Books
by Walter Brueggemann [5 Winners]

We’re excited to run this giveaway of FIVE sets of two new books
by Walter Brueggemann … Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age
(Paperback: WJK Books, 2020.)\ and Materiality as Resistance:
Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World
(Paperback: WJK Books, 2020) Enter now to win both of these new books:

 

*** Wesley Hill – The Lord’s Prayer – Review

Another Image of What Our Prayer Life Might Look Like
A Review of The Lord’s Prayer — A Guide to Praying to Our Father
by Wesley Hill  (Hardback: Lexham Press, 2019)
Reviewed by Trent Crofts


 

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*** Coronavirus Resources for Churches

Technology has made it relatively easy to broadcast our worship services
over the internet during times like this when staying home is recommended
or mandated. BUT the bigger challenge is the question: What does it look
like for us to be the church, to be the compassionate Body of Christ in motion
in these times — caring for one another and for our neighbors
(and especially for those on the margins of congregation and neighborhood)?
Here are a few Coronavirus resources for  churches...

 

*** Lectionary Poetry –
Lent Week 4 (Year A)

New poems posted for this coming Sunday, Week 4 of Lent...
Including ones by Madeleine L'Engle, Rumi, Eugene Peterson, 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.

Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books