Eugene Peterson, MLK, Edwidge Danticat, Lectionary Poems, more -Jan. 18

Eugene Peterson, MLK, Edwidge Danticat, Lectionary Poems, more -Jan. 18 - ERB Daily Book Morsel

Published: Mon, 01/18/21

January 18, 2021

“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”

- Edwidge Danticat,
novelist

Tomorrow is the Haitian-American novelist's birthday...

Today is the Martin Luther King holiday...

Take some time today to listen to
some of MLK's most important speeches!

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A Long Obedience
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Lectionary Poetry – 3rd Sunday After Epiphany (Year B)

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New Book Releases – Week of 18 January 2021 – Andrew Root, More

Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out… Andrew Root, Nnedi Okorafor, Simon Winchester, MORE

Derek Taylor – Reading Scripture as the Church [Review]

An Invigorating Challenge. A Review of
Reading Scripture as the Church: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Hermeneutic of Discipleship
by Derek Taylor (Paperback: IVP Academic, 2020)
Reviewed by Justin Cober-Lake

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Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books