Our culture professes to love children, but provides very few resources to help parents explore the bigger questions in life. My thanks to Tami for suggesting these two titles, as well as the ones highlighted...
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New in the Church Library
Tami has recommended several books on Christian parenting, to accompany her adult education series. One is 9 Ways to Bring Out the Best in You & Your Child, by Maggie Reigh (649 R). Filled with...
New in the Church Library – April 2013
Here are highlights of a few more new children’s books: Archbishop Desmond Tutu teaches a message of peace and hope in God’s Dream. A series of scenes show toddlers sharing and playing together,...
New Children’s Books to Explore
Come explore the new books in the childrens collection! Here are a few highlights. More, by I. C. Springman: a delightful book about our attachment to material things. The “less is more” theme...
New In the Library, February 2013
Attention parents and church school teachers – the children’s book collection is now cleaned up and organized! The books are sorted into five categories: Family and Behavior, Bible, Jesus and Christmas,...
New in the Church Library – January 2013
The data is clear: religious affiliation is plummeting across the Christian denominations. And yet interest in “spirituality” is on the rise. Diana Butler Bass offers a fresh interpretation of the...
New in the Church Library – June, 2012
In Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White; Thoughts on Religion, Morality, and Politics (261.1 H), Adam Hamilton proposes a richer, more thoughtful conversation that seeks truth on all sides of the...
New in the Church Library – April, 2012
I Believe in … Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Young People Speak About their Faith (200 G) is a collection of interviews conducted with almost 100 Chicago-area teens–Jews, Christians, and Muslims....
New in the Church Library – March, 2012
In God is Not One (200 P), author Stephen Prothero sets up a helpful model for examining each religion on its own terms: he explores a problem that dominates the religion, the religion’s solution...
New in the Church Library – February, 2012
Remember the Harry Potter Sunday last fall? You can learn more about the Christian and ethical themes in the series in God and Harry Potter at Yale by Rev. Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio (201 T), now in...