Here are 5 essential September 2024 ebook deals that are worth checking out: Tricia Hersey, Oliver Burkeman, Stanley Hauerwas, more…
Each week, we carefully curate a handful of books for church leaders that orient us toward the health and the flourishing of our congregations.
#1:
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Tricia Hersey
*** $2.99 ***
In Rest Is Resistance, Tricia Hersey casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us. Rest, in its simplest form, becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it asserts our most basic humanity. We are enough. The systems cannot have us.
#2:
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
*** $2.99 ***
“Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time.” —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.
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#3:
Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian
by Stanley Hauerwas, Romand Coles
Romand Coles and Stanley Hauerwas have probed the practices of radical democracy and radical Christianity, respectively, for some years. Here they present a series of exchanges in which each is electrified–both shocked and enlivened–by currents from the other. This book is indispensable for those seeking to animate democratic spirituality.
–William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University, author of Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (2008)
#4:
Grief is for People
Sloane Crosley
*** $2.99 ***
“In this aching meditation on loss and friendship, essayist and novelist Crosley (Cult Classic) eulogizes her late literary mentor and best friend against the backdrop of the high-pressure publishing industry…Her characteristically whip-smart prose takes on a newly introspective quality as she reinvigorates dusty publishing memoir tropes and captures the minutiae of a complicated friendship with humor and heart. This is a must-read.”
―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
#5:
The Awakening of Hope: Why We Practice a Common Faith
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
*** 99c ***
According to Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, faithful action is always inspired and sustained by common convictions—the basic truths that have sustained God’s people throughout every generation. The Awakening of Hope re-presents Christian faith by beginning with stories of faithful witness and asking, Why? Why do Christians eat together? Why do we fast? Why would we rather die than kill? These are the questions that help us see why creation and the fall, covenant and community, ethics and evangelism matter.
This book is a contemporary catechism, celebrating lives and stories that wouldn’t make sense if the gospel were not true. And then going one step further, this project shares the good news of Jesus and the way of life that he makes possible.
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