Recommended by Dr. Bill Holmes, Interim President

A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent
Author: Walter Brueggemann
Westminster John Knox, 2016
ISBN-10: 0664261698
ISBN-13: 978-0664261696
From the publisher’s website: Lent recalls times of wilderness and wandering, from newly freed Hebrew slaves in exile to Jesus’ temptation in the desert. God has always called people out of their safe, walled cities into uncomfortable places, revealing paths they would never have chosen. Brueggemann’s thought-provoking reflections for the season of Lent invite us to consider the challenging, beautiful life that comes with walking the way of grace.
http://www.wjkbooks.com/Products/0664261698/a-way-other-than-our-own.aspx

Recommended by Rev. Amber Inscore Essick, Adjunct Professor of Christian Worship

Blessed Are the Crazy: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family, and Church
Author: Sarah Griffith Lund
Chalice Press, 2014
ISBN-10: 0827202997
ISBN-13: 978-0827202993
Breaking the silence about mental illness starts by listening to one story, and then another, and another.  As I read Sarah Griffith Lund’s memoir during Lent, I will be especially attuned to how ministering to those who struggle with mental illness can enhance our worshiping life.
http://www.chalicepress.com/Blessed-Are-the-Crazy-P1454.aspx

Recommended by Dr. John Inscore Essick, Associate Professor of Church History

Martin Luther’s Easter Book
Editor: Roland Bainton
Augsburg Fortress, 1981
ISBN-10: 0806635789
ISBN-13: 978-0806635781
This year marks the 500^th anniversary of the appearance of Luther’s 95 theses. Thanks to esteemed Luther scholar Roland Bainton (d. 1984), Martin Luther’s Easter Book provides readers with excerpts from Luther’s Holy Week sermons and a final section on resurrection.
https://www.augsburgfortress.org/store/product/5938/Martin-Luther-Easter-Book

Recommended by Dr. Laura Levens, Assistant Professor of Christian Mission

Listening for God: A Minister’s Journey Through Silence and Doubt
Author: Renita J. Weems
Touchstone, 2000
ISBN-10: 0684863138
ISBN-13: 978-0684863139
Renita Weems, as a believer and minister, experienced and relied upon experiences and intimacy with God. Then one day, inexplicably, God fell silent and seemed no longer to be there. Listening for God is a deeply personal and theological account of Weems’ journey through a period “of feeling lost and disoriented,” and how little by little, she became re-attuned to God’s mysterious presence in the silence and absence. This book is composed of short journal entries within larger subject chapters.
This book is out of stock at publisher’s website, so it may be best to buy from another retailer.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684863138?tag=simonsayscom
http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-7567305-11819508?SID=simonsayscom&url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/?ean=9780684863139

Recommended by Dr. Mark Medley, Associate Professor of Theology

The Word in the Wilderness:  A Poem a Day for Lent and Easter
Editor: Malcom Guite
Hymns Ancient & Modern, 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1848256781
Guite chooses a favorite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions.  This collection offers poetic theology which illuminates God’s poiesis of redemption in the desert landscape of Lent, in the dark field of Holy Week, and in the radiant Easter dawn.
https://canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781848256781/word-in-the-wilderness