Here are 5 essential August 2024 ebook deals that are worth checking out: Barbara Brown Taylor, Peter Rollins, Alice Waters, 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:
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
Barbara Brown Taylor
*** $1.99 ***
““This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail….I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be.” —Frederick Buechner
“A widely acclaimed preacher, Taylor draws on her homiletical skills in this finely crafted memoir with a simple plot: an Episcopal priest exhausts her inner resources, first in an urban church and then in a small country parish; she changes jobs, struggles and finds renewal. Such a synopsis, however, does not do justice to Taylor’s literary style in this rich evocation of her lifelong love affair with God. “When I think of my first cathedral,” she writes, “I am back in a field behind my parents’ house in Kansas, with every stalk of prairie grass lit up from within.” Drawn to the church, she compulsively overworks: “I had such a strong instinct for rescue that my breasts fairly leaked when I came across those in need of rescuing.”… Current and former clergy will relate to her comical and sometimes touching descriptions of parish life, while memoir buffs will savor her journey as she identifies her core beliefs, sets boundaries and learns to relish her “blessed swath” of the world.” — Publishers Weekly starred review
#2:
The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
Peter Rollins
*** $2.99 ***
*** PLUS, Buy the Ebook, and
get the audiobook for $7.49!!!
You can’t be satisfied. Life is difficult. You don’t know the secret.
Whether readers are devout believers or distant seekers, The Idolatry of God shows that we must lay down our certainties and honestly admit our doubts to identify with Jesus. Rollins purposely upsets fundamentalist certainty in order to open readers up to a more loving, active manifestation of Christ’s love.
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#3:
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
Alice Waters
*** $4.99 ***
“Waters makes a convincing case that the act of eating is political, with powerful effects on the future of the planet.” —TIME
“Waters, legendary chef and founder of Berkeley’s Chez Panisse, delivers an impassioned manifesto on how food and its quality impacts society and the planet . . . She offers cogent, well-reasoned analyses of the price of convenience, blind trust in advertising, and cheapness, all of which seduce ‘us into losing our desire, confidence, and ability to do things for ourselves.’ Highly convincing and incredibly inspiring, Waters’ fervent entreaty is sure to open eyes and change minds.” —Publishers Weekly
“Alice Waters is my favorite chef, and We Are What We Eat is a beautiful, important book. It’s full of passion, anger at the way things are, and hope for a kinder, fairer, more humane, and vastly more enjoyable future. This book is the culmination of a life’s work, a great life, and is a must read.” —Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
#4:
How to Be Idle: A Loafer’s Manifesto
Tom Hodgkinson
*** $2.99 ***
“Hodgkinson glories in reminding us that idleness has a long tradition. Indeed, I was so impressed by his chapter on the virtues of the nap, that one sunny lunchtime I headed for the park to fall asleep in the sun – which I did, feeling gloriously guiltless and assertive about it.” — The Guardian
“Hodgkinson, a partisan in ‘the millennia-long battle between the materialists and the mystics,’ …cares deeply enough for his subject to transcend its built-in cheekiness….In a rightly breezy style, Hodgkinson recommends stargazing, smoking, loafing in pubs, lying bed.” — East Bay Express
From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new universal standard of living: being happy doing nothing. He covers a whole spectrum of issues affecting the modern idler—sleep, work, pleasure, relationships—while reflecting on the writing of such famous apologists for it as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Nietzsche—all of whom have admitted to doing their very best work in bed.
#5:
The Book of Bebb
Frederick Buechner
*** $1.99 ***
Pulitzer Prize finalist Frederick Buechner’s quartet of outrageously witty, inspirational Bebb novels in one volume.
Frederick Buechner is an American writer and theologian. He is the author of thirty-six published books and has been an important source of inspiration and learning for many readers. His work encompasses many genres, including fiction, autobiography, essays, sermons, and other nonfiction. Buechner’s writing has often been praised for its ability to inspire readers to see the grace in their daily lives. He is best known for his novels, including 1981 Pulitzer Prize finalist Godric, his memoirs, including The Sacred Journey and Telling Secrets, and his more theologically-minded works, including Secrets in the Dark and Telling the Truth.
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