Church of the Advent | Anglican Church in Colwood

Come and find peace and tranquility at our Taize service, held this coming Saturday at 5 PM in the Chapel.

This is the final week on the Top Shelf for books about faith journeys. On the Shelf this week, we have two books that were advertised but MIA last week, and two newly-donated books by popular authors Rachel Held Evans and Barbara Brown Taylor.

For fans of Rachel Held Evans: Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions.
An earlier title for this book was Evolving in Monkey Town (Evans’s hometown was where the Scopes Monkey Trial was held). Evans herself was raised in a fundamental, creationist Christian faith, which began to unravel when she started to ask the difficult questions. This is a “spiritual journey from certainty to doubt to faith,” as she found a God big enough to handle those difficult questions.

For fans of Barbara Brown Taylor: Learning to Walk in the Dark.
Taylor writes about her studies of different kinds of darkness, physical, emotional, and spiritual, and what she learned from her explorations: “When… the lights have gone off in my life, plunging me into the kind of darkness that turns my knees to water, I have not died…. I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light,” she writes. This was a New York Times bestseller in 2014.

Also:

Herbert O’Driscoll. A Doorway in Time: Memoir of a Celtic Spiritual Journey.
The well-loved local author gives us an account of his childhood in Ireland, and his entry into the spiritual world through the Celtic sense of the holiness of place.

Sister Jeremy Hall, OSB. Silence, Solitude, Simplicity: A Hermit’s Love Affair with a Noisy, Crowded, and Complicated World.
A book of Benedictine wisdom based on a personal spiritual journey.

SHELF CODES
When you fill out a loan or return slip, you are asked to enter a “shelf code”. This is the book’s unique identifier and is written on the label on its spine or front cover. For example, the shelf code for Faith Unraveled is BIOG EVA3. That means that the book is housed in the BIOG(raphy) section, that the author’s last name begins EVA(ns), and that it’s the third book by this author in the Biography section (the other two, FYI, are Searching for Sunday and Wholehearted Faith). The catalogue binder (second shelf of the small bookcase in the Narthex) contains a more detailed explanation of the library’s themes and shelf codes, if you’re interested.

OVERDUE BOOKS
Please return any books that you borrowed a while ago, no later than the first Sunday in January. Thanks.