Recommended Readings
from Margaret

Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in our Busy Lives by Wayne Muller
 

Our Sunday morning Adult Formation group has been reading this lovely and gentle book.  It offers a vision for restoring the sacred rhythm of rest in our lives. It reminds us that the observation of Sabbath time is a commandment, not a suggestion, and offers many ways in which we can incorporate this holy time into our modern lives.

 

The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality by Ronald Rolheiser
 

Rolheiser was asked to write this primer of spirituality by his editor at Doubleday who wanted him to articulate for his grown children the reasons why he still attends church and to remind himself on those days when he himself questioned.  It is a rich and wise book about what it means to be a Christian.

 

The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith; How We Can Be Passionate Believers Today by Marcus Borg
 

The author of Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time explores Christian doctrine in such a way that it reclaims for the broader church terms and ideas that have become identified with fundamentalism. This is a statement of a very generous Christianity.

 

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
 

This too-short novel won the author her second Pulitzer Prize, which means she's batting 1000. Her only other novel, Housekeeping, was written 25 years ago. This narrative is in fact a letter written by an elderly pastor to his very young son, whom he know he will never be able to tell the rich stories of his life.

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