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Pleasant Hill
Community Church
Pleasant Hill, Tennessee
Community Church
Pleasant Hill, Tennessee
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Pleasant Hill Community Church Library
The Community Church library, home to over an eclectic collection of over 1,000 books, has moved back to the sanctuary!
Thanks to an annual budget allotment and the generous gifts of book lovers, new and timely books are added to the collection once or twice a month and may be borrowed Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 3:00pm. The lending period is three weeks.
Please check back soon for full listing of titles in the library as well as an archive of books already reviewed as well as new reviews.
Below are descriptions of the great things our Sunday School group has been reading. Please join us!
The Community Church library, home to over an eclectic collection of over 1,000 books, has moved back to the sanctuary!
Thanks to an annual budget allotment and the generous gifts of book lovers, new and timely books are added to the collection once or twice a month and may be borrowed Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 3:00pm. The lending period is three weeks.
Please check back soon for full listing of titles in the library as well as an archive of books already reviewed as well as new reviews.
Below are descriptions of the great things our Sunday School group has been reading. Please join us!
We recently
studied
Modern Christians are
steeped in a language
so distorted that it has
become a stumbling
block to the religion,
says internationally
renowned Bible scholar
Marcus J. Borg. Borg argues that Christianity's important words, and the sacred texts and stories in which those words are embedded, have been narrowed by a modern framework for the faith that emphasizes sin, forgiveness, Jesus dying for our sins, and the afterlife. Here, Borg employs the "historical-metaphorical" method for understanding Christian language that can restore for us these words of power and transformation. For example,
Redemption: now narrowly understood as Jesus saving us from sins so we can go to heaven, but in the Bible it refers to being set free from slavery.
Savior: now refers to Jesus as the one who saves us from our sins, but in the Bible it has a rich and wonderful variety of meanings having nothing to do with the afterlife.
Sacrifice: now refers to Jesus's death on the cross as payment for our sins, but in the Bible it is never about substitutionary payment for sin.
In Speaking Christian, Borg delivers a language for twenty-first-century Christians that grounds the faith in its deep and rich original roots and allows it once again to transform our lives.
studied
Modern Christians are
steeped in a language
so distorted that it has
become a stumbling
block to the religion,
says internationally
renowned Bible scholar
Marcus J. Borg. Borg argues that Christianity's important words, and the sacred texts and stories in which those words are embedded, have been narrowed by a modern framework for the faith that emphasizes sin, forgiveness, Jesus dying for our sins, and the afterlife. Here, Borg employs the "historical-metaphorical" method for understanding Christian language that can restore for us these words of power and transformation. For example,
Redemption: now narrowly understood as Jesus saving us from sins so we can go to heaven, but in the Bible it refers to being set free from slavery.
Savior: now refers to Jesus as the one who saves us from our sins, but in the Bible it has a rich and wonderful variety of meanings having nothing to do with the afterlife.
Sacrifice: now refers to Jesus's death on the cross as payment for our sins, but in the Bible it is never about substitutionary payment for sin.
In Speaking Christian, Borg delivers a language for twenty-first-century Christians that grounds the faith in its deep and rich original roots and allows it once again to transform our lives.
We're now
reading
Virtually everyone
acknowledges difficulty
with some aspect of
their own religious
tradition, even if they
are wholly devoted to
their faith identity.
These vulnerabilities can inhibit meaningful personal engagement with a faith tradition but they can also feed misunderstanding between religious institutions and undermine any hope of authentic interfaith dialogue.
Expanding on the conversation started with their very successful first book, the Interfaith Amigos--a pastor, a rabbi and an imam--probe more deeply into the problem aspects of our religious institutions to provide a profound understanding of the nature of what divides us. They identify four common problem areas in the Abrahamic faiths--exclusivity, violence, inequality of men and women, and homophobia--and their origins. They explore the ways critics use these beliefs as divisive weapons. And they present the ways we can use these vulnerabilities to open the doors for more profound personal relationships, collaboration required to address our common issues, and true interfaith healing.
reading
Virtually everyone
acknowledges difficulty
with some aspect of
their own religious
tradition, even if they
are wholly devoted to
their faith identity.
These vulnerabilities can inhibit meaningful personal engagement with a faith tradition but they can also feed misunderstanding between religious institutions and undermine any hope of authentic interfaith dialogue.
Expanding on the conversation started with their very successful first book, the Interfaith Amigos--a pastor, a rabbi and an imam--probe more deeply into the problem aspects of our religious institutions to provide a profound understanding of the nature of what divides us. They identify four common problem areas in the Abrahamic faiths--exclusivity, violence, inequality of men and women, and homophobia--and their origins. They explore the ways critics use these beliefs as divisive weapons. And they present the ways we can use these vulnerabilities to open the doors for more profound personal relationships, collaboration required to address our common issues, and true interfaith healing.
Next up
If you put aside what
you think you know
about Jesus and
approach the Gospels
as though for the first
time, something
remarkable happens:
Jesus emerges as a
teacher of the transformation of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault is a masterful guide to Jesus's vision and to the traditional contemplative practices you can use to experience the heart of his teachings for yourself.
"A masterful work. Cynthia Bourgeault invites us to follow Jesus's path of self-emptying love, and she describes wisdom practices that we Christians can use every day to transform our own minds so that we too can see with the eyes of Christ."-Jim Marion, author of Putting on the Mind of Christ.
If you put aside what
you think you know
about Jesus and
approach the Gospels
as though for the first
time, something
remarkable happens:
Jesus emerges as a
teacher of the transformation of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault is a masterful guide to Jesus's vision and to the traditional contemplative practices you can use to experience the heart of his teachings for yourself.
"A masterful work. Cynthia Bourgeault invites us to follow Jesus's path of self-emptying love, and she describes wisdom practices that we Christians can use every day to transform our own minds so that we too can see with the eyes of Christ."-Jim Marion, author of Putting on the Mind of Christ.
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