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Every week since 2019, we've been offering a collection of poetry to correspond with the scripture readings from the Revised Common Lectionary. We're excited to tell you that the first volume is now available as an ebook!! Learn more here: buff.ly/7H7yd2F
Today is December 3, which means our third selection of our Year's Best Books Advent Calendar is available for you know... take a peak behind the window to see what we've selected! buff.ly/7s1q7PE
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Today is December 3, which means our third selection of our Year's Best Books Advent Calendar is available for you know... take a peak behind the window to see what we've selected! buff.ly/7s1q7PE
🎵 🕯️ It's the most wonderful time of the year! 🕯️🎵We're thrilled to kick off our 2025 Advent Calendar! Over the course of December, we'll share 30 of the year's best books from a diverse group of authors and across a wider range of genres. Click on the 1st window to see today's pick: buff.ly/7s1q7PE
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
🎵 🕯️ It's the most wonderful time of the year! 🕯️🎵We're thrilled to kick off our 2025 Advent Calendar! Over the course of December, we'll share 30 of the year's best books from a diverse group of authors and across a wider range of genres. Click on the 1st window to see today's pick: buff.ly/7s1q7PE
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Englewood Review of Books does an Advent book calendar every year. Happy that "A Beautiful Year" appeared when I opened the FIRST window!
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Dec. 1 - Diana Butler Bass - A Beautiful Year [Advent Calendar 2025]
Our Best Books of 2025 Advent Calendar - December 1 - A Beautiful Year by Diana Butler Bass (Hardback: St Martins, 2025)
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December 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Englewood Review of Books does an Advent book calendar every year. Happy that "A Beautiful Year" appeared when I opened the FIRST window!
englewoodreview.org/dec-1-diana-...
englewoodreview.org/dec-1-diana-...
Happy to see our friend John's book on this list! @jwhawthorne.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Happy to see our friend John's book on this list! @jwhawthorne.bsky.social
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🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵 And we've got gift ideas for every reader on your list... buff.ly/gIT4orz
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵 And we've got gift ideas for every reader on your list... buff.ly/gIT4orz
NEW REVIEW: ERB Assistant Editor reviews Households of Faith by Emily Hunter McGowin. Lindsey felt the book was valuable but with a glaring oversight...read the full review here: buff.ly/FC54JyW
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
NEW REVIEW: ERB Assistant Editor reviews Households of Faith by Emily Hunter McGowin. Lindsey felt the book was valuable but with a glaring oversight...read the full review here: buff.ly/FC54JyW
This Sunday is the second Sunday of Advent, the season in which we anticipate the birth of Christ. A collection of poetry to accompany this week's Lectionary readings is ready for you here: buff.ly/vvKCKaa
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This Sunday is the second Sunday of Advent, the season in which we anticipate the birth of Christ. A collection of poetry to accompany this week's Lectionary readings is ready for you here: buff.ly/vvKCKaa
Every week since 2019, we've been offering a collection of poetry to correspond with the scripture readings from the Revised Common Lectionary. We're excited to tell you that the first volume is now available as an ebook!! Learn more here: buff.ly/7H7yd2F
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Every week since 2019, we've been offering a collection of poetry to correspond with the scripture readings from the Revised Common Lectionary. We're excited to tell you that the first volume is now available as an ebook!! Learn more here: buff.ly/7H7yd2F
This week's Feature Review is live! buff.ly/RusFbz4
The Place of Tides by James Rebanks.
Don't miss it! It's a quiet, beautiful anthem that encourages us towards a life of slowness.
The Place of Tides by James Rebanks.
Don't miss it! It's a quiet, beautiful anthem that encourages us towards a life of slowness.
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This week's Feature Review is live! buff.ly/RusFbz4
The Place of Tides by James Rebanks.
Don't miss it! It's a quiet, beautiful anthem that encourages us towards a life of slowness.
The Place of Tides by James Rebanks.
Don't miss it! It's a quiet, beautiful anthem that encourages us towards a life of slowness.
This Sunday, we turn the page and enter a new year in the church calendar, returning to Advent. Enjoy our collection of Lectionary Poetry for this week: buff.ly/7lnt12h
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This Sunday, we turn the page and enter a new year in the church calendar, returning to Advent. Enjoy our collection of Lectionary Poetry for this week: buff.ly/7lnt12h
NEW FEATURED REVIEW: @jonathanpanwalton.bsky.social reviews the new book, For the Love of Women: Uprooting and Healing Misogyny in America by @dorothylgreco.bsky.social buff.ly/DXFbujY
Thanks to Jonathan for this personal and thoughtful review!
Thanks to Jonathan for this personal and thoughtful review!
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
NEW FEATURED REVIEW: @jonathanpanwalton.bsky.social reviews the new book, For the Love of Women: Uprooting and Healing Misogyny in America by @dorothylgreco.bsky.social buff.ly/DXFbujY
Thanks to Jonathan for this personal and thoughtful review!
Thanks to Jonathan for this personal and thoughtful review!
NEW REVIEW: The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy by @matthewboedy.bsky.social buff.ly/TgH8zPz
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
NEW REVIEW: The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy by @matthewboedy.bsky.social buff.ly/TgH8zPz
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review of my new book, The Seven Mountains Mandate: “Boedy’s book is an important contribution to the exposing of these “hidden” influences that are having an outsized and detrimental impact on our democracy and our churches.” englewoodreview.org/matthew-boed...
review of my new book, The Seven Mountains Mandate: “Boedy’s book is an important contribution to the exposing of these “hidden” influences that are having an outsized and detrimental impact on our democracy and our churches.” englewoodreview.org/matthew-boed...
Matthew Boedy - The Seven Mountains Mandate [Review] - The Englewood Review of Books
A Review of The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America... by Matthew Boedy (WJK Press, 2025)
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November 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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review of my new book, The Seven Mountains Mandate: “Boedy’s book is an important contribution to the exposing of these “hidden” influences that are having an outsized and detrimental impact on our democracy and our churches.” englewoodreview.org/matthew-boed...
review of my new book, The Seven Mountains Mandate: “Boedy’s book is an important contribution to the exposing of these “hidden” influences that are having an outsized and detrimental impact on our democracy and our churches.” englewoodreview.org/matthew-boed...
🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵 And we've got gift ideas for every reader on your list... buff.ly/gIT4orz
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵 And we've got gift ideas for every reader on your list... buff.ly/gIT4orz
Strega Nona turns 50: buff.ly/VSnYMyr
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Strega Nona turns 50: buff.ly/VSnYMyr
We're excited to offer something new this year...a Christmas gift guide! 75+ books and gifts across different genres and for different readers. Check it out: buff.ly/gIT4orz
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We're excited to offer something new this year...a Christmas gift guide! 75+ books and gifts across different genres and for different readers. Check it out: buff.ly/gIT4orz
This week's featured review is of the book In the Low: Honest Prayers for Dark Seasons by Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson
Read the review here: buff.ly/NQZNUNC
Read the review here: buff.ly/NQZNUNC
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This week's featured review is of the book In the Low: Honest Prayers for Dark Seasons by Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson
Read the review here: buff.ly/NQZNUNC
Read the review here: buff.ly/NQZNUNC
We've highlighted 6 new books that released this week, which we think will be especially interesting to our readers! Check them out here: buff.ly/9HffvfN
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We've highlighted 6 new books that released this week, which we think will be especially interesting to our readers! Check them out here: buff.ly/9HffvfN
This week's Lectionary Poetry is ready for you! buff.ly/Rsolibg And be sure to read this Pauli Murray's full poem, linked in the comments. Murray was an American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, and the first black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This week's Lectionary Poetry is ready for you! buff.ly/Rsolibg And be sure to read this Pauli Murray's full poem, linked in the comments. Murray was an American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, and the first black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.
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"I want nothing more"
A prayer from 'Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light'🙏
A prayer from 'Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light'🙏
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"I want nothing more"
A prayer from 'Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light'🙏
A prayer from 'Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light'🙏
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@erbks.bsky.social has featured "Art Is..." as the “Starred New Book of the Week”—"Art Is invites us to see the world in prismatic and diverse lights, helping us navigate the fractured, divisive times we live in."!
New Book Releases – Week of 20 Oct 2025 – Makoto Fujimura
Here are a few new book releases that are worth checking out: Makoto Fujimura, Sue Monk Kidd, Niloufar Khonsari, more...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@erbks.bsky.social has featured "Art Is..." as the “Starred New Book of the Week”—"Art Is invites us to see the world in prismatic and diverse lights, helping us navigate the fractured, divisive times we live in."!
Did you catch our new book announcement?! Grateful to be partnered with Shane to publish his new book: buff.ly/fsF8fwu
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Did you catch our new book announcement?! Grateful to be partnered with Shane to publish his new book: buff.ly/fsF8fwu
Over the next month, we are hosting a read-along and discussion of the new book from Hanna Reichel, called For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional, from Eerdmans. @hannareichel.bsky.social @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social
Join the Facebook group to be part of the conversation: buff.ly/rJ2yidE
Join the Facebook group to be part of the conversation: buff.ly/rJ2yidE
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Over the next month, we are hosting a read-along and discussion of the new book from Hanna Reichel, called For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional, from Eerdmans. @hannareichel.bsky.social @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social
Join the Facebook group to be part of the conversation: buff.ly/rJ2yidE
Join the Facebook group to be part of the conversation: buff.ly/rJ2yidE
Every week, we select some classic and contemporary poetry to correspond with the lectionary text. Here is this week's collection: buff.ly/KjqNWvn
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Every week, we select some classic and contemporary poetry to correspond with the lectionary text. Here is this week's collection: buff.ly/KjqNWvn
Happy birthday to the great Katherine Paterson!!
“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”
(Paterson is a Newbery Medalist and the author of classics like Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, and more.)
“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”
(Paterson is a Newbery Medalist and the author of classics like Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, and more.)
October 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Happy birthday to the great Katherine Paterson!!
“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”
(Paterson is a Newbery Medalist and the author of classics like Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, and more.)
“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”
(Paterson is a Newbery Medalist and the author of classics like Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, and more.)