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,...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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In the Church Library – January, 2012

Three new books offer help for your spiritual life: Naked Spirituality, a Life with God in 12 Simple Words is by Brian McLaren (248 M). The author presents a four-stage framework for understanding the...

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Church Library – December, 2011

Last April the cover story in Time Magazine was entitled What if there‘s no Hell? It was a discussion of Rob Bell’s latest book Love Wins; a Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person...

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