If you missed the September program on understanding Islam, sponsored by the Yorktown clergy, the church library has purchased the DVD Inside Islam; What a Billion Muslims Really Think. The Gallup poll...
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Church Library – May 2011
Kicked Out, edited by Sassafras Lowrey, with a foreword by Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard, is a collection of stories told by the teens who were kicked out when their parents learned that...
Church Library – April, 2011
N. T. Wright, who wrote the series of New Testament studies recently added to the Library, has also written several books about Christian belief and life. Why do we expect justice? Why do we crave spirituality?...
Church Library – February 2011
Mitch Albom, author of the best-seller Tuesdays with Morrie, has written another inspiring book, Have a Little Faith (call number 201 A). It begins when an elderly rabbi from Albom’s old hometown...
Church Library – January 2010
Speaking of Faith; Why Religion Matters—and How to Talk About It(200 T) is by creator and host of public radio’s Speaking of Faith program Krista Tippett, who has spent countless hours doing just...
Church Library – February 2010
When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Penn-sylvania schoolhouse in 2006, attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by...
Church Library – May 2010
The Great Emergence; how Christianity is Changing and Why (270.8 T), Phyllis Tickle, long an astute observer of religion, examines a once-every-500-years trend within Christianity she calls “the...
Church Library – Summer 2010
Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join once again to present a new understand-ing of early Christianity–this time to reveal a radical Paul who has been suppressed by the church. In The First...
Church Library – October 2010
New in the Church Library “Christianity has an image problem.” That’s the first sentence of UnChris-tian; what a new generation really thinks about Christianity … and why it matters...
Church Library – January 2011
If you attended or heard about Peter Rollins appearance at the church in October, you may want to follow up by reading some of his books. The Orthodox Heretic (230 R) is in the library’s col-lection,...