This is an ecumenical website of resources and reflections on liturgy, spirituality, and worship for individuals and communities. It is run by Rev. Bosco Peters.
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell (224 pages) This book is (surprisingly) controversial. Many Christian book stores refused to stock it. Some hid it under the counter, passing it across surreptitiously in a brown paper bag. Rupert Murdoch-owned Zondervan (publisher of NIV),… Continue Reading
The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith by Peter Hitchens (Zondervan 2010). Peter Hitchens is the brother of well-known anti-theist, Christopher Hitchens. I had expected more of a book that worked systematically through arguments for God’s existence and against the points that Christopher Hitchens makes. Instead, in this relatively short book, there… Continue Reading
Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the Saints is a revision of The Episcopal Church’s Lesser Feasts and Fasts, improving the biographies, choices of scripture, and composition of the collects. It also includes new commemorations authorised by the General Convention. The book includes the calendar, resources for the weekdays of Advent until the Baptism of Christ,… Continue Reading
The Hour That Changes Everything: How worship forms us into the people God wants us to be by John van de Laar John is a Methodist minister who has served three times as Worship Director for the National Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. His website, Sacredise, has similar hopes to this one… Continue Reading
I recently received a copy of Becky Garrison’s Starting from Zero with $0. Journalist and regular religious commentator Becky Garrison reflects on about a dozen mission-shaped ministries that started from zero with $0. These ministries are both in the US and in the UK. I was hooked when the book started with Rick Fabian and… Continue Reading
The Bible Through the Seasons: A Three-Year Journey with the Bible by Nicholas Connolly 472 pages (iUniverse, Inc. March 20, 2007) How do you read the whole Bible systematically and prayerfully? How do you not loose energy for your reading when you hit page after page of Iron Age health regulations and butchering instructions? How… Continue Reading
A regular participant on this site, David, encouraged me to purchase the Mahzor Lev Shalem – Prayerbook for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur A mahzor is the prayer book used by Jews on the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. But, for those who have not seen a mahzor, such a technical description… Continue Reading
