How the Library Works
Where is the library located?It's next to the Fireside Room.
How do I check out a book?The system for checking out books from the church library is simple: Just write your name and date on the card that is in the envelope inside the book and leave it in the box provided.
What kind of books are available?We have a variety of books for all reading tastes. They are color-coded with dots to indicate the subject matter.
Who manages the church library?Thanks go to Muffy Keen, Carolyn Bruno, and Helen Petersen for keeping our church library so well managed.
Book Reviews
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Neil White
This is a new book just added to the library. The author was sent to federal prison in Carville, Louisiana, which also was home to the last people in the U.S. disfigured by leprosy—a small circle of outcasts. Here is how his strange and compelling new life journey began.
~ Evelyn Haas
What's So Amazing About Grace?
Philip Yancey
In June I reviewed Kathleen's Norris' book
Amazing Grace, A Vocabulary of Faith. Another book on grace is Philip Yancey's
What's So Amazing About Grace? Yancey had heard of a prostitute who said going to church would make her feel worse than she already did. "But the Gospels tell how women like her fled toward Jesus, not away from him. Has the church lost that gift?" he asks. Yancy, who uses "stories rather than syllogisms," compares grace with "ungrace," and is always thorough. His book
Where is God When It Hurts? is also available in the church library.
~ Helen Petersen
Amazing Grace, a Vocabulary of Faith
Kathleen Norris
In
Amazing Grace, a Vocabulary of Faith, author Kathleen Norris chronicles her difficult journey navigating the language of faith — Conversion, Salvation, Incarnation, Righteousness — after being away from the church for many years. Each chapter stands alone. At University of Life in April, we heard her insights via DVD; now we can learn more from her New York Times Best Seller book. This book can be found in the church library.
~Helen Petersen
Life on the Vine, Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit in Christian Community
Philip D. Kenneson, IVPress1999
How do you cultivate JOY in the midst of manufactured desire? GENTLENESS in the midst of aggression? SELF-CONTROL in the midst of addiction? As indicated by these chapter titles, in Life on the Vine, Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit in Christian Community, Philip Kenneson shows how our American culture has fooled us into substituting the fake for the real, and gives us specific ways of recognizing what sabotages us, with practical suggestions on how to produce fruit that is pleasing to God.
~Helen Petersen
The Woman Who Loved Paul
Priscilla is unwavering in her dedication to the Apostle Paul, aiding in his work as he travels to Corinth, in Greece, and to Ephesus, in Asia Minor. There he will establish new Christian churches, following "The Way." Priscilla and her tentmaker husband, Aquila, make room in their home and their lives for Paul to continue the work that God as assigned to him.
Although
The Woman Who Loved Paul is a work of fiction by writers Winthrop & Frances Neilson, Priscilla's character and others are based on Luke's writing in
Acts of the Apostles and in the
Epistles written or dictated (to Priscilla) by Paul. Daily life is seen through the eyes of a woman.
~Marge Hagerman
If you enjoyed one of the books from our library, we encourage you to share it with others - write a review and submit it to the church office!
