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Author: Barbara Brown Taylor | Year: 2009
In this follow-up to Leaving Church, Barbara Brown Taylor invites us into a luminous exploration of sacredness embedded in the ordinary. Through practices like paying attention, finding community, embracing wilderness, and honoring Sabbath, she shows us how everyday actsâwashing dishes, walking the earth, pausing in prayerâcan become altars in the world. Itâs a poetic, practical field guide to living with reverence and spiritual responsiveness.
đ Scripture: Romans 12:1
âTherefore, I urge you,âŻin view of Godâs mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Godâthis is your true and proper worship.â
Reflection: Romans 12:1 calls us to spiritual attentivenessânot in distant rituals, but through offering our very lives. Taylorâs book embodies this verse: showing us that everyday moments, when noticed and honored, become our worship and spiritual altar. Living fully present is holy offeringâsimple, real, transformative.
Author: Barbara Brown Taylor | Year: 2006
In this poetic and candid memoir, Episcopal priest and acclaimed spiritual writer Barbara Brown Taylor explores the profound choice to leave parish ministryânot as a withdrawal, but as an invitation into deeper faith. She shares how compassion fatigue, institutional tension, and a longing for authenticity led her into solitude, teaching, and renewing spiritual life in ordinary places and shared human encounters :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}.
đ Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1
âThere is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.â
Reflection: Taylorâs memoir is a testimony to sacred transitions. Ecclesiastes reminds us that letting go can be holy and necessary. Recognizing the âseasonâ to leave institutional roles for deeper spiritual clarity echoes Taylorâs journey and invites us into trust, humility, and renewed longing for God beyond structures.
Author: Rob Hopkins | Year: 2019
In a culture starved of possibility, Rob Hopkins dares us to reclaim our collective imagination. From What Is to What If offers a vibrant and practical vision of how communitiesâwhen rooted in creativity, courage, and connectionâcan build just and joyful futures. At Holy Covenant, where faith meets action, this book renews our call to dream boldly, act bravely, and shape the world with sacred hope.
Author: BrenĂŠ Brown | Year: 2017
In a world pulling us toward polarization and performance, BrenĂŠ Brown calls us back to something deeper: true belonging. Braving the Wilderness is an invitation to stand in sacred solitude when needed, to speak truth with love, and to show up as our whole, unarmored selves. At Holy Covenant, where community is rooted in authenticity and justice, this book reminds us that belonging is not about fitting inâitâs about daring to be seen and loved exactly as we are.
Author: Parker J. Palmer | Year: 2000
With gentle wisdom and soulful clarity, Parker Palmer invites us to listen inwardly and live authentically. Let Your Life Speak is a tender and transformative meditation on vocationânot as a job, but as the sacred intersection of inner truth and outer action. For Holy Covenant, this book resonates as a call to discernment, rooted in community, courage, and the Spiritâs quiet guidance toward wholeness.
Author: Walter Brueggemann | Year: 2019
With urgency and insight, Walter Brueggemann invites us into the world of the prophetsâvoices who dared to name injustice, envision liberation, and imagine a future rooted in Godâs covenantal love. From Judgment to Hope helps readers wrestle with the raw honesty of scripture and hear echoes of the prophetsâ calls in our own time. At Holy Covenant, this study fuels our desire to be a justice-seeking, hope-bearing people grounded in sacred truth.
Author: Bradley Onishi | Year: 2023
A former insider turned scholar, Onishi confronts the violent underpinnings of white Christian nationalism with moral clarity and intellectual courage. Preparing for War is both exposĂŠ and call to actionâa warning against complacency, a reckoning with distorted theology, and a challenge to live out a gospel of justice. For congregations like Holy Covenant, this book ignites reflection and calls us to stand boldly in love, truth, and peace.
Author: David Zucchino | Year: 2020
A Pulitzer Prize-winning exposĂŠ of Americaâs only successful coup, Wilmingtonâs Lie uncovers the coordinated racial terror that toppled a multiracial government in North Carolina. Zucchinoâs telling is haunting and urgent â reminding us that truth-telling is sacred work.
Editors: Leah Gunning Francis & Kennetha Bigham-Tsai | Year: 2023
Building Up a New World is a vibrant, practical guide to congregational organizing that centers faith, justice, and collective power. Rooted in the prophetic legacy of resistance and renewal, this book equips local churches to take bold steps toward community transformation.
Author: Jennifer Berry Hawes | Year: 2019
Grace Will Lead Us Home is an unforgettable and deeply moving account of the aftermath of the 2015 Charleston church shooting, written with compassion and journalistic clarity by Pulitzer Prizeâwinning reporter Jennifer Berry Hawes. Through the voices of survivors, family members, and faith leaders, the book reveals not just the pain and devastation of racial hatredâbut also the extraordinary grace, forgiveness, and resilience shown by a grieving community.
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