Fellow Friends of John Wilson,
As you might be aware, John has been employed with us at The Englewood Review of Books as Contributing Editor for the last six months. We have been delighted to have John on staff, and his work is already bearing fruit: He has identified excellent books to feature that would not otherwise have been on our radar; he found new reviewers to write for us (including Philip Jenkins); and he has thoughtfully written columns for our recent issues. John’s role with us is minimal at the present, but we would like to employ him in a greater capacity (ideally full-time) beginning as soon as possible in the coming year.
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Rooted Strongly in History
A Feature Review of
LIKE: Poems
A.E. Stallings
Hardback: FSG Books, 2018
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Reviewed by Sarah Lyons
When I was growing up, I was like many other kids and infatuated with the myths of Greek and Roman gods. I would pull reference books from the library, hunting for narratives of men and women interacting with the divine. With each new discovery I grew to both adore these stories and hate them—the arbitrary punishments, the rise and then deaths of heroes, the bright-burning romances and their ensuing jealousies, agonies, heartbreak. I distinctly remember sitting down, pen and paper in hand, and attempting to make a list of myths that I could identify with; I wanted to keep track of ones that “ended well,” that offered some piece of hope toward the future.
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N.T. Wright
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The Story of Carols
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Tim Dowley
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Carols fall into that category of things that people either love or loathe. Many warm to their traditional imagery and annual memories of Christmases past; others do their utmost to avoid them, associating carols with sentimental words and mawkish music.
Carols are normally narrative, contemplative or celebratory in content, often with a simple, straightforward sentiment and in strophic form. Most of the surviving medieval carols were written for the professional cathedral singers of Europe. Among the oldest is ‘Puer natus in Bethlehem’ (‘A Boy is Born in Bethlehem’), dating from the thirteenth century. Though the majority of carols were for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, others were for Holy Innocents’ Day, Epiphany and Twelfth Night – for instance, the ‘numeral’ carol ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, which appears in England from the eighteenth century onwards. The carol ‘The Seven Joys of Mary’, which appears with many variants in the UK and the USA, grew out of pre-Reformation devotion to the Virgin and has survived for centuries in vernacular devotional verses in the folk tradition. The carol ‘I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In’, for which the earliest known printed text dates from 1666, possibly derives from European folk memory of the supposed journeyings of relics of the Magi, the ‘Three Kings of Cologne’.
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For almost three decades now, The Innocence Mission has been one of my favorite bands.
I was delighted to learn that they were recently featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, playing three songs from their new album:
Sun on the Square
Badman Recording Co, 2018
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TEN Women Musicians You Should Know
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Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out:
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It’s that time of year again!
I just dug our Advent calendar out of the attic,
and have loaded it up with our picks for the best books of the 2018
to be revealed one per day through Advent!
Stop by daily through the Advent season,
as we will feature one of the best books of 2018 each day!
The windows in color below (with WHITE numbers) have books behind them… CLICK a window to see our book for that day of Advent!
Misappropriating Bonhoeffer
A Feature Review of
The Battle for Bonhoeffer:
Debating Discipleship in the Age of Trump
Stephen Haynes
Paperback: Eerdmans, 2018.
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Reviewed by James Dekker
The ten chapters and postscript “Open Letter to Christians Who Love Bonhoeffer but (Still) Support Trump” of Stephen Haynes’s Battle for Bonhoeffer are some of the densest I’ve ever read outside of graduate theses, but it is far more engaging than any thesis. Dense is by no means bad. Battle is carefully organized, clearly written and always compelling. And well it should be, since this closely-argued discursus explores possibly the most incandescent questions in American Christians’ conversation since the Vietnam War: “Why and how has Dietrich Bonhoeffer become a hero to evangelicals in the first twenty years of the 21st century, when for decades after his death his theology was widely suspect outside mainline Protestantism? Why do so many evangelicals support Donald Trump?” Such rocky geography covers the American evangelical battleground that Stephen Haynes attempts to delimit.
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Each week, we carefully curate a handful of books for church leaders that orient us toward the health and the flourishing of our congregations.
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