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Spirituality and Religion September 2023 |
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| I Won't Shut Up: Finding Your Voice When the World Tries to Silence You by Ally HennyWhat it is: a candid and thoughtful exploration of racist power structures and the negative toll they can take on people of color, through the lens of the author's experiences in church spaces in her youth and as an adult.
For fans of: Doing Nothing Is No Longer an Option by Jenny Booth Potter; Living Resistance by Kaitlin B. Curtice; All God's Children by Terence Lester.
About the author: Ally Henny is a minister and activist, vice president of the Black Christian media collective The Witness, and host of the podcast Combing the Roots. |
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God never gives up on you : what Jacob's story teaches us about grace, mercy, and God's relentless love by Max Lucado Could you benefit from an encounter with God’s unending, unbending, unswerving love and devotion? If your answer is yes, it’s time for you to see how God’s grace transformed Jacob’s life. God Never Gives Up on You is for the strugglers among us and the fumbler within us. For those of us who are part saint, part scoundrel; we mean well, but we don’t always do well. We need no reminder of our failures. But where can we find examples of God’s steadfast grace? No one is more suited to help assure you of God’s grace than Jacob. He was less a prodigy and more a prodigal.
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| The Body Revelation: Physical and Spiritual Practices to Metabolize Pain, Banish Shame... by Alisa KeetonWhat it is: an engaging and accessible guide to the role the body plays in spiritual experience and how trauma and chronic pain can disrupt the powerful connections between body, mind, and soul.
Read it for: the straightforward and well-organized advice on how to better foster this connection; the affirming discussions of size, weight, and body image.
Reviewers say: "Christians seeking to integrate their spiritual and physical practices will want to have a look" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott KeyWhat it's about: a marriage threatened by infidelity, the lessons learned from trying to work through it, and what comes next.
Don't miss: the engaging discussions of forgiveness as a Christian virtue and how the author still struggled to forgive his wife for her affair..
About the author: Harrison Scott Key is a Thurber Prize-winning writer and humorist whose short-form work has appeared in The Best American Travel Writing, McSweeney's, Outside, and Salon. His previous books include The World's Largest Man and Congratulations, Who Are You Again? |
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For numerous centuries, the Talmud―an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition―has compelled readers to grapple with how to live a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and rabbinical repartee, it is inspiring, demanding, confounding, and thousands of pages long. As Liel Leibovitz enthusiastically explores the Talmud, what has sometimes been misunderstood as a dusty and arcane volume becomes humanity’s first self-help book. How the Talmud Can Change Your Life contains sage advice on an unparalleled scope of topics, which includes communicating with your partner, dealing with grief, and being a friend. |
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Blessed in the mess : how to experience God's goodness in the midst of life's pain by Joyce Meyer"Can we truly find peace and even blessing amid the chaos, the disappointments, and the other messes that life brings our way? Life is often messy. We hear people say, "My life is a mess," or "This situation is a mess." What they mean is that life has become difficult, painful or confusing. But God never promised us a trouble-free life. In fact, His Word tells us to expect the opposite. In John 16:33, Jesus says, "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world" (NIV). In Blessed in the Mess, beloved Bible teacher Joyce Meyer shows us how to be blessed in the midst of life's most challenging circumstances. The Bible is filled with instructions on how to handle ourselves when difficulty comes our way, and Blessed in the Mess shares that wisdom through poignant and practical teaching that equips us to remain stable and hopeful in every situation. No matter what problems we may face, there is a way to remain joyful and patient as God works on them. If you have not handled the messy issues or challenges in your life well in the past, then with God's help, you can begin to manage them better, starting now. We should never waste our pain. Through the wisdom distilled in this book, we can learn how to gain something from our messes, use those insights to avoid trouble in the future, and share our experiences to help other people find blessings in the midst of their messes" |
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| Like A River: Finding the Faith and Strength to Move Forward After Loss and Heartache by Granger SmithWhat it is: a moving and thoughtful examination of grief in the face of loss, big and small, and coming out of it stronger on the other side.
Read it for: the candid portrait of the author's grief at losing his three-year-old son and how his faith helped support him through his mourning.
Reviewers say: "In stark, intimate prose, the author candidly renders the realities of suffering while articulating a moving message of renewal" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought... by Sarah StankorbWhat it's about: the uphill battles of women in the American evangelical movement to seek justice for the abuse they and others endured in their insular communities.
Case studies include: the mishandling of a child sex abuse case at the Joshua Harris' Covenant Life Church; the dozens of women who reported sexual harassment and assault by Christian speaker and writer Bill Gothard.
Reviewers say: "a compassionate portrait of pain and perseverance" (Publishers Weekly). |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Warren County Library
2 Shotwell Drive
Belvidere, New Jersey 07823
908-818-1280www.warrenlib.org |
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