Gregory Boyd – Inspired
Imperfection – Feature Review

How God Breathed Scripture? A Feature Review of
Inspired Imperfection: How the Bible’s Problems
Enhance its Divine Authority by Gregory Boyd
Paperback: Fortress, 2020
Reviewed by Justin Cober-Lake




***A Meditation for Churches
by ERB Editor C. Christopher Smith:

Churches Should Think Twice Before
Webcasting Their Worship Services

While under the rapidly-evolving circumstances,
I don’t blame churches for going this route,
I can’t help but urge us to pause and consider:
What is a worship service?  What really matters in a
worship service? And, what technological tools can be best used
to create a space in which worship can flourish?


 

5 Essential Ebook Deals for
Church Leaders – 19 March 2020

Here are 5 essential March 2020 ebook deals that are worth checking out:
Henri Nouwen, N.T. Wright, Wilda Gafney, Joan Chittister, MORE

Living In Anxious Times – Books for Kids

By Erin Wasinger. In my school library I typically see about 375
elementary-aged students each week, my idea of a dream job.
Judging by our in-school panic last Thursday and Friday,
today would’ve been more of the same: kids acting out,
showing us what they know about living with anxiety and
looking to adults with few answers. I would have read the following books. 

From Our Archives...

Lent – Seven of our Favorite Poems

Including poems by Madeleine L’Engle, Gerard Manley Hopkins,
T.S. Eliot, George Herbert and MORE…

In Case You Missed It... 

*** 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:

*** 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