Month: August 2019 (Page 1 of 2)

In the past week 111 titles added to the library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on a link for more information.

A letter to my congregation: an evangelical pastor’s path to embracing people who are gay, lesbian and transgender in the company of Jesus /Ken Wilson.
The title shows how God has the author on a journey toward a rethinking homosexuality in the church today. In particular, this book asks Christians to rethink what God and scripture may be saying about what it means to be a good and decent person.

Anglican women novelists: Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James /edited by Judith Maltby and Alison Shell.
This collection of essays examines women novelists who were inspired to write fiction through their relationship with the Church of England. Topics covered include a range of literary genres, from life-writing and whodunnits through social comedy, children’s books and supernatural fiction.

Hardwired: finding the God you already know /James W. Miller.
Building on the biblical principle that God’s existence is plain in what He has made, this book makes the case for our natural lives giving us a language for God’s existence.

Just a sister away: a womanist vision of women’s relationships in the Bible /by Renita J. Weems.
This title probes beneath the surface to find out how the women of Scripture felt about themselves-by looking at how they treated other women. Believing that a common thread of sacred female experiences continues to bind centuries of women, this book offers the hope that “we are just a sister away from our healing.”

Midaq Alley /Naguib Mahfouz; translated by Trevor Le Gassick.
This novel brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s.Nobel Prize-winner Mahfouz’s talent for rich and luxurious storytelling been more evident than here, in his portrait of one small street as a microcosm of the world on the threshold of modernity.

The Niebuhr brothers for armchair theologians /Scott R. Paeth; illustrations by Ron Hill.
This title offers a compelling introduction to the life, times, and theological thought of H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr–the two most important American theologians of the twentieth century.

Please don’t tell: what to do with the secrets people share /Emma J. Justes.
This title guides individuals on how to manage private information. This book examines both privileges and responsibilities in reporting, discerning the truth, and helping people bear the deep sins or temper the anger that threatens to overflow.

The poems of Queen Elizabeth I /edited by Leicester Bradner.
This title contains a curated collection of writings in verse of Queen Elizabeth I.

Worship ways for the people within your reach /Thomas G. Bandy, with Lucinda S. Holmes.
This book explains why people worship and guides leaders to design relevant worship services that address people’s sense of urgency. Learn to use lifestyle information in worship planning to design a service that truly reaches the people in your community.