Book reviews
Glory, Too
This is a collection that I would be happy to read through in one sitting, but like a chocolate layer cake, I know that taking my time to savor each poem, referring to the Scripture references, and reflecting is even better.
Rise: A Child’s Guide To Eastertide
Laura Alary has given us a new comfort read in Rise: A Child’s Guide To Eastertide. In this book, she masterfully combines gentle phrases with things to ponder, wrapped in familiar concepts that help us reimagine what it means to live as Easter people.
PART-TIME IS PLENTY: Thriving Without Full-Time Clergy
Due to declining membership and budget deficits, churches are switching to part-time clergy. This book provides a new model where congregations can flourish and thrive with part-time clergy.
God’s Perfect Peace
The power of building simple liturgies matter. When times become challenging, what we have in our core memories to fall back on matters. This is precisely why Glenys Nellist’s newest book, God’s Perfect Peace is not to be missed.
My Guncle and Me
“Wait. THAT’S what this was about? I did NOT get that,” were the words out of my 21 year old daughter’s mouth when she and I were discussing my feelings about My Guncle and Me by Jonathan Merritt. She is an education major and regularly pores through my stacks to find...
God, Gospel, and Gender
Finding resources to use with teens is challenging. Finding resources that are theologically sound is tricky. Finding resources to use with leaders who don’t teach full time is a tall order. Finding resources that are engaging and meaty is not easy. Finding resources...
Hear Our Prayer; Prayers of the People for the Revised Common Lectionary
I am probably not the intended audience of Hear Our Prayer; Prayers of the People for the Revised Common Lectionary by Jon White and Lisa Graves. I’m not someone who leads corporate worship. I’m not someone who gets called into rooms pregnant with conflict and in need...
Prayers for Every Season
I think everyone knows my deep affection for and constant use of Common Prayer for Children and Families. (TL;DR version: I found it when cleaning out my new office last summer. It’s from 2019 and couldn’t believe that I had never seen it before that day.) I get a...
My Tender Heart Prayer Book
I find it ironic that adults will often comment that they don’t know how to pray when just about every young child I know will pray with the most beautiful authenticity. I am always honored when I get to pray alongside them, because they enrich my prayer life...
When I Go To Church, I Belong
My big sister has Down Syndrome. My early years were immersed in the world of her therapies and classes through early intervention, which was a brand-new thing in the late 70s. I never knew that other families did NOT live lives regulated by bus schedules, push-in...
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