Lent is a time of preparation for Easter, the most important season in the church year. The week from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday is known as Holy Week. While individual preparation and reflection is an important part of this preparation, there are also a number of events, activities and materials to assist in this [...]
Advent (from the Latin word adventus meaning “coming”) is a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus Christ at Christmas. It is the start of the liturgical year, the cycle of readings and special days. In 2010, Advent begins on November 28 and ends with Christmas Eve. The colour [...]
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison. Enlarged edition edited by Eberhard Bethge. Simon and Schuster, 1997 Call number: 922.443 B714BL 1997 Reviewed by Susan Walma Books about war more often than not are about the battles, the victories and losses on the battlefield and the heroism of the combatants. This book, instead [...]
Levine, Amy-Jill, Dale C. Allison Jr., and John Dominic Crossan, editors. The Historical Jesus in Context. Princeton University Press, 2006> Call number: 232.908 L665 Reviewed by Susan Walma Using primary sources, the 28 essays included in this book provide the reader understanding into the historical background of the times, the culture and the literary conventions [...]
Would you like to join ina weekly program in which you can participate at your own time in the comfort of your home. This new program is for you. More than 100 First Met people took part in the “test drive” of the program this summer and the results were encouraging. You are invited to [...]
What an exciting conference we had! Next year, Jan 19-23, 2012 will be our 10th Year and will feature speakers Marcus Borg, Richard Rohrbaugh, Mary Jo Leddy, Elizabeth May and others. Information will be posted in June on the program for 2012. Registration starts on August 15.Thank you to all our volunteers, delegates, presenters and [...]
Call number: 231.6 B469 Reviewed by: Jill Chamberlin “Only God deserves absolute surrender, because only God can offer absolutely dependable love.” Dr Benner shows in a compassionate manner, how commonly we relate to God out of fear and obligation, never feeling in our hearts the abundance of God’s love for us. Instead of struggling to [...]
Call no.: 232 B732ju Reviewed by: Susan Walma According to the author this book started life as a revision of his earlier work Jesus: A New Vision; however, as the author notes: “Only a few paragraphs here and there are more or less the same as what I wrote twenty years ago.” (preface p.1) So [...]
Collins, Francis. The Language of God. Free Press, 2007. Call no. 215 C712 Sanguin, Bruce. Darwin, Divinity and the Dance of the Cosmos. CopperHouse, 2007. Call no.: 215 S326 Reviewed by: Laura Butler Let me draw your attention to two new books that have recently been added to our church library: The Language of God by [...]
Call no.: 220.920 5209 E33 Reviewed by: Susan Walma Ever wondered how the New Testament came into being or whether or not there were other sacred writings known to early Christians? Then this book is for you. Here, Ehrman presents writings that were once considered sacred but were later excluded from the canon by orthodox [...]