New Library Books

We regularly add new books to our Resource Collection. Here are the books we’ve added in the last three months.

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84		How to lead when you don't know where you're going : leading in a liminal season	Susan Beaumont	Rowman & Littlefield (An Alban Institute Book)	2019	Liminality refers to that state of ambiguity and disorientation that occurs during transition. Both challenges and opportunity face congregations in that state when something has ended but something new has not yet begun. How does one exercise leadership and institutional discernment in such a situation?	11/13/2019
85		Let's talk about death : asking the questions that profoundly change the way we live and die	Steve Gordon and Irene Kacandes	Prometheus Books	2015	A professor and a message therapist explore sickness and dying through email conversations spanning several years. Reviewers call it honest, unsentimental, and compassionate treatment of a difficult subject.	12/19/2019
86		Universal Christ : how a forgotten reality can change everything we see, hope for and believe	Richard Rohr	SPCK/Convergent Books	2019	Presenting a "transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God's constant, unfolding work in the world," Rohr draws on scripture, history and spiritual practice to inform his conviction that humanity has never been separate from God (except by our own negative choice) and in fact that God's presence is all around us. Includes some helpful appendixes on understanding his conception of the Universal Christ, and an extensive bibliography.	12/19/2019
87		Psalms as Torah : reading Biblical song ethically	Gordon J. Wenham	Baker Academic	2012	Arguing that although theology in the psalms has been analyzed, their ethics have been largely ignored. The psalms have much to say about what actions please God, and act as a sort of ethical indoctrination, serving not only as worship but instruction. He does not avoid the problems `in reading the psalms in this way. As bibliography is included.	12/19/2019
88		Holy envy : finding God in the faith of others	Barbara Brown Taylor	HarperOne	2019	"Existential dizziness is one of the side effects of higher education...." claims Taylor, and her books are certainly not for those who want straight lines and limited choices. This is professor Taylor, whose class on Religions of the World opened new windows to her life and faith. Not a primer on other faiths, but an exploration. At least one book group is using it, and a reading and discussion guide is available at SmallGroupGuides.com. Suggestions for further reading are included.	01/06/2020
90		Then sings my soul (three volumes)	Robert J. Morgan	W Publishing Group / Thomas Nelson	2003	Each of three volumes in this series examine 150 of the world's hymn stories, giving the author of the text (not music) placed in brief historical context. Many, but by no means all, of the hymns are familiar to Episcopalians.	01/06/2020
91		Wanted : a spiritual pursuit through jail, among outlaws, and across borders	Chris Hoke	HarperOne	2015	Hoke began as a night-shift chaplain at a men's correctional facility, and found there the spiritual experiences he'd been seeking, among gang members and other prisoners. In sharing their stories he shows the reader another vision of the forgotten souls whom society rejects. His work has been featured on NPR and in magazines and this book is being read by folks at Chaplains at the Harbor. If you liked Greg Boyle, try this.	01/07/2020
92		Call it grace : finding meaning in a fractured world	Serene Jones	Viking	2019	President of the Union Theological Seminary, Jones offers a public theology for our age, frankly dealing with topics such as hatred and love,forgiveness, mercy, justice, and sin and grace through the wisdom of great theological voices such as Reinhold Niebuhr, John Calvin, James Baldwin, James Cone and others. One reviewer calls this book a blessing for a "tired, divided, angry world."	01/07/2020
94		Running to resurrection : a soul-making chronicle	Clark Berge	Canterbury Press	2019	Berge says, "Running has become a wide-open frontier where my body and spirituality converge, a playground of embodied living." At age 45 he realized that he needed to change his life, and he began to jog. As Minister General of the order of the Society of St. Francis he has run in places around the globe.	01/07/2020
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