We regularly add new books to our Resource Collection. Here are the books we’ve added in the last three months.
| Title | Author | Publisher | Year | Comments | Date added | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wdt_ID | Cover | Title | Author | Publisher | Year | Comments | Date added |
| 36 | |||||||
| 130 |  |
God and the pandemic : a Christian reflection on the coronavirus and its aftermath | N.T. Wright | Zondervan Reflective | 2020 | Expanded from a TIMES article, this slim reflection encourages lament, noting that grief is a part of love, but notes that out of lament comes action as well as prayer and hope. | 08/31/2020 |
| 131 |  |
Little book of race and restorative justice : Black lives, healing, and US social transformation | Fania E. Davis | Good Books | 2019 | Restorative justice embraces the indigenous concept of Ubuntu in its understanding of interrelatedness and responsibility. Chapters consider integrating racial and restorative justice, applies the concept to schools, mass incarceration, police violence and suggests a way forward. Davis is a civil rights trial attorney who has received national honors for her work. | 08/31/2020 |
| 132 |  |
Jesus through Middle Eastern eyes : cultural studies in the Gospels | Kenneth E. Bailey | IVP Academic | 2008 | Although this is not a new book, it is new to our collection and looks at various passages, especially the parables, through the lens of culture, providing both interpretation and context. | 08/31/2020 |
| 138 |  |
Jesus and Buddha meet in stillness | Paul Rietmann | Independently published | 2020 | Offering teaching from Christianity and Buddhism, exploring mindfulness meditation and contemplative prayer through the lens and experiences of his own spiritual journey. | 10/20/2020 |
| 144 |  |
Building resilience : when there's no going back to the way things were | Alice Updike Scannell | Morehouse Publishing | 2020 | "How do we develop the resilience that empowers us to be ourselves in the face of change? How do we learn to be courageous when days are difficult?" So asks Stephanie Spellers in her forward and such is the question for our times. Not only for the pandemic times but for the radical changes and upheavals in our personal lives. | 01/04/2021 |
| 145 |  |
We shall be changed : questions for the post-pandemic Church | Edited by Mark D.W. Edington | Church Publishing, Inc. | 2020 | There is no doubt that 2020 has changed us, and this collection of essays from around the church presents some responses to our increased awareness of systemic racism and in preparation for the eventual end of the COVID-19 pandemic. The essays are to encourage conversation in clergy and parish groups as we move forward together. | 01/04/2021 |
| 146 |  |
Preaching Black Lives (Matter) | Edited by Gayle Fisher-Stewart | Church Publishing, Inc. | 2020 | Prophetic imagination sees a world of the future in which all Christians are free of racism, and specifically looks at the role of the Anglican Church and Episcopal Church, in ending systems of injustice and the ability to preach it from the pulpit |
01/04/2021 |
| 147 |  |
Caste : the origins of our discontents | Isabel Wilkerson | Random House | 2020 | America has an unseen caste system; Wilkerson claims that we have an unspoken race-based caste pyramid, that "caste is the infrastructure of our divisions, " and that it is about a hierarchy of power and which groups have or lack it. She describes this as the bones of our discontent, "race is the skin." | 01/21/2021 |
| 148 |  |
Oscar Romero : a man for our times | Julio O. Torres | Seabury Books | 2021 | A word portrait of Romero, the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, based on published work and interviews with colleagues and family to provide a deep look at this complicated, and prophetic, leader. | 01/30/2021 |