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 [...]
Call no.: 226.0633 F982 Reviewed by Susan Walma. On the cover of the book appears the question that is the subject and also the subtitle of the book, “What did Jesus really say?” and it is this question that is addressed by the scholars of the Jesus Seminar. Simply, and perhaps even simplistically stated, the [...]
Call no.: 248.4 M283 Reviewed by Susan Walma Brennan Manning is a Franciscan priest, an author and lecturer. He wrote this book to address the problem of self-hatred that he feels is ‘the predominant spiritual problem’ he has grappled with and that can put us, both individuals and the church, into spiritual bondage. The book [...]
Call no.: 242.M818r and CD 242.M818r Reviewed by: Susan Walma Written by a United Church minister who wrote the ‘Healing Oasis’, the author provides guidance for those leading meditations in the introductory chapters and also provides a series of meditations that can be used by individuals and groups. Each meditation is fully explained with an [...]
Call no.: 304.2 P573 Reviewed by Susan Walma Bill Phipps, past moderator of the United Church of Canada, was one of the keynote speakers at the Epiphany Explorations of 2009. In this book, he explores the ecological, environmental, economic and social issues and the religious, or rather, the spiritual faith contexts that face modern society [...]
Call no: 200.835 P746 Reviewed by Diane Aitken. This book introduces the spiritual traditions of nine world religions to teens: The Goddess Tradition, Aboriginal Spirituality, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, and the Bahai Faith are all briefly introduced by the author. Information about each faith tradition includes: A Green Rule, the Golden Rule, Overview, [...]
Call no.: 297.72.R278 Reviewed by Susan Walma As preparation for the review of this book, I decided to search for the word “jihad” on the Internet and found the following on Wikipedia: “Jihad … is a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic, the word jih?d is a noun meaning “struggle.” Jihad appears frequently in the [...]