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January 2020
Marginalia
"Marginalia" are the marks you scribble around the border edges of a book - you know the comments, jokes, critiques, and doodles sure to drive any librarian crazy. Last fall, Redeemer launched a Sunday morning learning series by the same name. Think of it as a kind of Sunday School for grown-ups. Ruth The Book of Ruth is the Old Testament’s underdog, a lot like the non-Jewish widow it’s named after. And for such a tiny book, this literary masterpiece…
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Educated
Educated, Tara Westover. (Harper Collins, 2018). This is the remarkable autobiography of a young woman raised in Nevada by an unorthodox Mormon father whose strongly held and unshakeable paranoid beliefs caused terrible damage to his children. It is also the story of her escape, first to Brigham Young University and then to Cambridge, an escape that for her was imperative but whose high price was the lasting destruction of most of her family relationships. The story is told in vivid…
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Marginalia
"Marginalia" are the marks you scribble around the border edges of a book - you know the comments, jokes, critiques, and doodles sure to drive any librarian crazy. Last fall, Redeemer launched a Sunday morning learning series by the same name. Think of it as a kind of Sunday School for grown-ups. Ruth The Book of Ruth is the Old Testament’s underdog, a lot like the non-Jewish widow it’s named after. And for such a tiny book, this literary masterpiece…
Find out more »March 2020
Two Books for Lent
The Cloud of Unknowning, Anonymous. (Shambhalla, 2014). This is a fourteenth-century text is one of the great classics of English mysticism. It will enrich our own contemplative/mystical lives, and raise questions like: How important is contemplation to the spiritual life? Is mystical union with God possible? Is it for everyone? Is there Scriptural warrant for this? How does Christian mysticism differ from Buddhist mysticism? The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing our Humanity, Sally Kohn. (Chapel Hill: Algonquin…
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Lila
Lila, Marilynne Robinson. (Harper Collins, 2014). This is the third book of the Gilead trilogy, covering much of the same time period as Gilead and Home. Lila has made an appearance in the earlier books, but here her point of view is central. After her bare-survival childhood she meets the minister John Ames, is baptized, proposes to him and marries him. How complete is her transformation? Where do we see the remnants of her past popping up? Her theology is…
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