 I write this drawing on one side of my brain while another recovers from Faith and Nature camp while still another prepares for our journey to Tennessee with fifty children, 10 from South Church, for the national youth event of the United Church of Christ. I seem to be facing serious brain meltdown. One antidote to cranial burnout is a good book, not just to take your mind off things but also to take it to a place where it can be refreshed. I doubt that you woke up this morning wondering what your minister has been reading. However, I lift up the following titles to enrich your reading. They have helped my sanity this summer.
Schaper, Donna. Sacred Speech A Practical Guide for Keeping
Spirit in Your Speech. Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths
Publishing, 2003.
Have you ever wished that you had said something different or that you could speak in a more redemptive way. Donna provides some clues.
Goldstein, Warren. William Sloane Coffin Jr. A Holy Impatience.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Those who have heard my preaching have heard in my words the echo of a fellow New Yorker William Sloane Coffin.
Hendra, Tony. Father Joe The Man who saved My Soul. New
York: Random House, 2004.
Ever acted on an impulse to buy the book they talked about on National Public Radio and been rewarded? I was.
Rossing, Barbara A. The Rapture Exposed The Message of Hope
In The Book of Revelation. Cambridge, Mass: Westview Press, 2004.
By bringing the book of Revelation alive she debunks much of the end of the planet mentality that has reaped havoc in the world
Singer, Peter. The President of Good and Evil The Ethics of
George W. Bush. New York: Dutton, 2004.
Bound not to please George Bush fans it provides an ethical critque of our Government that will challenge Democrats as well as Republicans
Frank, Thomas. What’s The Matter With Kansas? New York:
Metropolitan Books, 2004.
Everything is up to date in Kansas and that may be the problem according to this author.
These are seven books that have kept me from meltdown. Some of them are mass reads as well as must-reads; I hope they might help you avoid summer meltdown. Perhaps you can let us know here at Parish Post some of the reading that has kept your heart open and your brain in gear. These authors renewed each in their own way my faith that God is still speaking.
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