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Book Cart


Notes from the book cart:

An important aspect of the Adult Education Ministry is to provide members and friends of the church an opportunity to check out the latest and the best in books of interest to Progressive Christians. In the narthex of the church you will find two carts laden with stimulating reading. Come check it out — something new every week! Your suggestions are always welcome.

Check these three new addition

The Power of Praying Together by Stormie Omartian
"When I learned to pray with others about the things that concerned me, I found myself praying more and with greater direction and purpose….I came to see that wonderful things happened in my life, not only because I was being prayed for but also because I was praying for others."  (Stormie Omartian) 

Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to
Stop Taking and Start Giving Backby Kevin and Hannah Salwen

Honest insight into the psychology of consumption and how it diminshes or ability to see beyond our own sense of entitlement.  Written by Kevin Salwen and his teenage daughter, Hannah Salwen.

Church of All ages – Generations Worshiping Together  ed. by Howard Vanderwell
Pastor and Resource developer Howard Vanderwell and nine other writers offer their ideas for designing intergenerational ministries and practices.

Book  List
To take a book sign the check out list and then cross your name out when you return the book –  Honor system!

A Family Guide to
Exploring Faith and Teaching Tolerance

Carry Brown Wolf

 

A Force More Powerful

 

 

Amazing Grace

Film

 

American Gospel

 

 

An Inconvenient Truth

DVD

 

Autobiography of MLKing Jr

Clayborne Carson

 

Beyond the Bio. of Jesus

 

 

Blue like Jazz

Miller

 

Buddhism I and II

Great Courses:  (Malcolm David Eckel)

 

Bread for the Journey

Sara Miles

 

Common Sense Christianity

C. Randolph Ross

 

Christianity without God

 

 

Credible Jesus

 

 

Cross Examinations

 

 

Dancing in the Streets

 

 

Darwin Diversity and the Dance of the Cosmos – An Ecological Christianity

Bruce Sangin

 

Dark Hope – Working for peace in Israel and Palestine

David Shulman

 

Defending Your Life

 

 

Eat, Pray, Love

Gilbert

 

Eternal Echoes

 

 

Evolution and the Christian Faith

 

 

Faith and Morals

Wm James

 

From Jesus to Constantine #1 and #2

 DVD

 

God and Gays

 DVD

 

Gospel of Mary Magdalene

 

 

Great Figures of the NT

Great Course Series Video

 

The Church is All of You…Thoughts of Archbishop Oscar Romero

James R. Brockman, S.J.

 

The Energy of Prayer – How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice - 

Thich Nhat Hanh

 

The Heart of Christianity 

M. Borg

 

The Heretic’s Guide to Eternity

 

 

The Parables of Jesus – Red letter Edition -

The Jesus Seminar

 

The Pagan Christ – Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?

Tom Harpur

 

Historic Jesus Goes to Church

 

 

History of the Bible

DVD

 

How Not to Speak of God

 

 

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

Bauckham

 

Jesus Before God

Taussig

 

Jesus for the Nonreligious

 

 

Jesus the Bible and Homosexuality

Rogers

 

Jesus: A New Vision

Borg

 

Jesus: Uncovering the Life

 

 

Letters to a Young Doubter

Coffin

 

Living Buddha, Living Christ

Thich Nhat Nanh

 

Lone Star

DVD

 

Lost Christianity #1, #2

DVD

 

Lost Gospel of Judas

 

 

Meeting Jesus Again for the 1st Time

Borg

 

Misquoting Jesus

Ehrman

 

Misunderstood Jew

 

 

Motorcycle Diaries

DVD

 

Musings of a Spiritual Handyman

 

 

National Geographic

Videotape

 

New Faces

 

 

Once Upon a Country, A Palestinian Life, 

Sari Nusseibeh: 

 

Open Christianity

Jim Burklo

 

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

 

 

Pascual’s Angels

 

 

Philosophy of Religion #1 and #2

Professor James Hall - DVD

 

Progressive Christians Speak

 

 

Proverbs of Ashes

RN Brock

 

Quadratos #1, #2

Shaia ( Retreat ) CD

 

Questions of Value

Patrick Grim : Great Course Series Video

 

Reading the Bible Again -1st time

M. Borg

 

Reading Judas

 

 

Remedial Christianity

 

 

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

Sider

 

Saving Paradise:  A History of Christianity’s Forgotten Love for This World.

Rita Nakashima-Brock

 

Science and Religion – The Teaching Co.

Great Courses Video

 

Screwtape Letters

Lewis

 

Simply Christian

NT Wright

 

Sins of Scripture

 

 

So You Can’t Stand Evangelism 

James R. Adams

 

So You Think You’re Not Religious – A Thinking Person’s Guide to the Church:  

James R. Adams

 

Soldiers and Slaves

Cohen

 

Soul Sunday

Wolf

 

Sugar Cane Alley

DVD

 

Take This Bread

Sara Miles

 

The Christian Pluralist – An invitation from the Pew

John Charles and Bill Buffie

 

The Complete Gospels

 

 

The God We Never Knew

Borg

 

The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to
Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time

Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen

 

The Emerging Church

Dan Kimball

 

The Illumined Heart

Frederica Mathewes Green

 

The Language of God

Collins

 

The Heart of Christianity

Borg

 

The Historical Jesus Goes to Church

Hoover, Patterson, et al

 

 The Language of God  

Francis S. Collins 

 

The Meaning of Jesus

MN Borg & NT Wright

 

The Message of the Psalms

Bruggeman

 

The Sea Inside

Film CD

 

The Spiral Staircase

Karen Armstrong

 

The Universe in a Single Atom

 

 

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James

 

Theology for Skeptics

Soelle

 

Uncommon Grace

 

 

The Uncommon Touch

Tom Harpur

 

Walking on Water

L’Engle

 

Weeping Camel

 

 

What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

 

 

When the Levees Broke

New Orleans

 

Writing the Sacred

Ray McGinnis

 

You Can Count on Me