Books

LaVonne Neff 4-05-2010

If you read only one book about the Sabbath, it should be Abraham Joshua Heschel's 1951 classic<

Julie Polter 3-23-2010
Alas, simply reading a book won't make you a better person.
Julie Polter 3-01-2010

Spirited Women with Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical

Rose Marie Berger 3-01-2010

Editor’s Note: Edwidge Danticat, author of six books including

The Editors 3-01-2010
Sojourners / Bob Fitch

Photo via Sojourners / Bob Fitch

Here is a list of books written by and about Daniel Berrigan. This list is by no means exhaustive.

Edward Gilbreath 2-24-2010

As far as African American history books go, Heroes in Black History<

LaVonne Neff 2-22-2010

Here's an idea for Lent that will do more good than giving up desserts: Read a book about contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. It's not a penance, though it can hurt.

More Than Equals, co-authored by Chris Rice and the late Spencer Perkins, is considered one of the pivotal books in the Christian racial reconciliation movement that found its greatest momentum in the early and mid-1990s.

Becky Garrison 2-15-2010

As I stated in an earlier blog post, the juxtaposition of reading Philip Gulley's book http://www.amazon.com/gp/p

Edwidge Danticat 2-02-2010

I was at the supermarket at my home in Florida with my two young daughters when my sister-in-law called to ask if I'd heard that there had been an earthquake in Haiti. I was a bit stunned. "Earthquake?" I said. Are you sure? She said it was 7.0. That didn't quite register for me. Then she said it was catastrophic.

Molly Marsh 2-01-2010

Blessed Are …

Jim Forest 2-01-2010

City of Belief, by Nicole d'Entremont