Here are 5 essential June 2022 ebook deals that are worth checking out: David Whyte, Christine Pohl, Marva Dawn, 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:
The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
David Whyte
*** $4.99 ***
With rich illustrations from literature, the humanities, and his own considered life, poet David Whyte describes why marriage to one person must inevitably be balanced with our unspoken vows to our work and our commitment to continuous self-understanding. The author’s poetic language helps these elegant ideas flow into the deepest parts of the soul–freeing us from stuck places, nurturing the courage to adopt new perspectives, and opening up opportunities for growth in our marriages, careers, and inner lives.
#2:
Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
Christine Pohl
*** $2.99 ***
Every church, every organization, has experienced them: betrayal, deception, grumbling, envy, exclusion. They make life together difficult and prevent congregations from developing the skills, virtues, and practices they need to nurture sturdy, life-giving communities.
In Living into Community Christine Pohl explores four specific Christian practices — gratitude, promise-keeping, truth-telling, and hospitality — that can counteract those destructive forces and help churches and individuals build and sustain vibrant communities. Drawing on a wealth of personal and professional experience and interacting with the biblical, historical, and moral traditions, Pohl thoughtfully discusses each practice, including its possible complications and deformations, and points to how these essential practices can be better cultivated within communities and families.
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#3:
Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
Marva J. Dawn
*** $3.99 ***
“Drawing deeply both from Scripture and from Jewish practices, the author of I’m Lonely, Lord–How Long ? shares ideas for various ways of keeping the Sabbath: by ceasing (from striving, productivity, anxiety); by resting (physically, emotionally, intellectually); by embracing (intentionality, Christian values); and by feasting (on the eternal, with affection). A thoughtful, prayerful book that opens new vistas on the underlying spirituality of what is too often understood in terms of shallow conventionality alone.”
–Library Journal
#4:
Both Flesh and Not: Essays
David Foster Wallace
*** $1.99 ***
“At their best these essays remind us of Wallace’s arsenal of talents: his restless, heat-seeking reportorial eye; his ability to convey the physical or emotional truth of things with a couple of flicks of the wrist; his capacity to make leaps, from the mundane to the metaphysical, with breathtaking velocity and ardor.”
–Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
#5:
Holy Luck: Selected Poems
Eugene Peterson
*** $1.99 ***
Eugene H. Peterson had long been known as a pastor, professor, and provocateur. With his first-ever collection of verse, Peterson became known as a poet, too. Holy Luck emerged over many years, initially as individual poems sent to family, friends, and church congregations. Now, the translator of the bestselling Bible paraphrase The Message has collected his poems into three thematic sections of verses—on the Beatitudes, the kingdom of God in the ordinary, and following Jesus everyday—here released as one transcendent volume.
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Stay tuned every week for essential ebook deals !!!
Prices and availability are subject to change at any time. These deals may or may not be available outside the United States.
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Katie Selby is Associate Editor of The Englewood Review of Books. Prior to her family‘s recent transition to the Englewood Christian Church community, Katie served various churches and organizations in Nebraska, East Tennessee, India, and Ethiopia. She is an M.Div. graduate of Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan University.
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