Cindy Crosby

A devotional companion for those following the Revised Lectionary, Year B.

Each reading begins with the editor's ingenious attempts to make a coherent picture out of all four readings. It then begins with a prayer, generally from a sacramentary (and many of them are quite good); patristic commentary is then given for the Old Testament reading for the week. The Psalm of response is listed but no commentary given; then there is patristic commentary on the New Testament and Gospel readings for the week. The reading then concludes with another prayer, generally from a sacramentary.

The reader must pay attention because the church year calendar will vary annually, and so some readings might get out of order. I would have liked to have seen patristic commentary on the psalm readings, but alas. A good resource overall.… (plus d'informations)

Book received from NetGalley.

This book is part botany, part conservation cry and part history of the prairie. I thought it was a great introduction to a subject many people didn't know about. The prairies of Illinois have a place in my heart I spent as much time on them while growing up as I did in my home state. After reading this book I have realized that I know very little about them and basically took them for granted. The Tallgrass prairies are an endangered ecology due to the fact that we have changed them considerably to grow quite a bit of our foodstuffs on them. It is a good thing that places such as where the author of the book works does their best to reseed areas of it to try to keep the ecology going. I learned quite a bit from this short book and will be looking into some of the suggested reading that they have in the back of it.… (plus d'informations)