Reflecting the Glory: Meditations for Living Christ’s Life in the World N.T. Perhaps you know the companion volume for Advent and Christmas, Watch for the Light. There are poems, too-Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, and the important “Seven Stanzas at Easter” by John Updike. Even after Lent, these excerpts by Yoder and Wright and Romero and Stott and E. From “A Father’s Grief” by Martin Luther to “The Signature of Jesus” by Brennan Manning to “The Central Murder” by the late Dale Aukerman, this is well written and challenging. What collection has Philip Berrigan and Oswald Chambers? Blaise Pascal and Emil Brunner, Fleming Rutledge and Watchman Nee? These readings are fabulously interesting, deeply rewarding in many cases- short enough to read quickly but profound enough to ponder all day long. Lewis, Dorothy Day, Frederick Buechner, Phil Yancey, Will Willimon, Barbara Brown Taylor, Edna Hong, and so many more. Chesterton, Madeleine L’Engle, Henri Nouwen, C.S. This is an unparalleled collection of authors such as C.K. Keller is always worth reading and is one today’s most important Christian writers and church leaders.īread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter (Orbis) $18.00 Year after year we’ve exclaimed about how rich an anthology this is, compiled originally by the now-defunct Plough Press, a very literary publishing ministry of a Hutterite community. He’s done his homework on Mark’s gospel and this book walks us through the life of Jesus and into his final weeks. We don’t get to make this up as we go along, and Keller is an insightful contemporary pastor with much cultural savvy and not a small amount of apologetic skill. It is divided into two parts, the first half called “The King” and the second half “The Cross.” I announced it previously here, and mentioned it on the radio interview because I hope that reading it will root our Lenten journey to Jerusalem not only with Jesus-that’s the point, you know-but in the accounts of his life as given to us in the Scriptures. King’s Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus Timothy Keller (Dutton) $25.95 This hardback is not too hefty and the 240 pages read easily, offering a fine study of the gospel of Mark. If you aren’t familiar with this important custom and way of seeing our lives, this is a fine introduction by a popular writer, a Benedictine nun. A lot of the book is on this particular season from Ash Wednesday into Holy Week and she covers it well (and beyond, of course, into Paschaltide or the days of Pentecost and ordinary time. I like these kind of basic books on how to live into a God-centered view of time. The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life Joan Chittister (Nelson) $12.99 This is one of the “Ancient Practice” series that we have so raved about, now out in paperback, and it frames our spiritual growth by the on-going “spiraling” church seasons. The Mosaic Holy Bible is a very nicely done New Living Translation (NLT) with a liturgical feel, some iconography and such, calligraphy and good quotes throughout which we stock in hardback and a lush leather-like. As we move this week into this season of the church year may your walk with God be deepened and your journey with Christ be expanded.ĭevotions for Lent from the Mosaic Bible (Tyndale) $2.99 The picture to the right which I intended as a generic Lenten graphic actually is a fabulous little pocket-sized booklet of 40+ Lenten readings, with artwork, handsome (small) typeface and fonts, a Celtic cross image on most pages, and enhanced with quotes from across the church universal. I named a few books for Lent and thought I’d share with you some of what I described to them, and a few others. I’d have been nervous (I don’t even want to know their drive time listener numbers) but John and Kathy are so supportive and say such outlandishly nice thing about our work here that they put me at ease. I was on after Miroslov Volf talking about his new book Allah. Thanks to my pals John & Kathy who call from time to time to do live interviews on Pittsburgh’s WORD FM, a fine Christian radio station.
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