Parish Library

St. Jude's maintains a lending library, located in the Farmhouse.  And a rotating selection of books is also available on the book cart in the Parish Hall. The library is self-serve, and books, movies, and audios can be checked out anytime during office hours.  Please sign-out the book on the card provided and return it when you have finished.

The Library Committee has installed shelf labels and alphabet cards to make locating books easier. Readers can search for books by browsing the shelves, searching  the listings on the library computer, or from the Title Catalog. Thanks to parishioner donations, the library has many new books which are kept on the book cart for one month, then shelved in the Farmhouse. 

Are reading more and growing spiritually part of your new year's resolutions? Two new selections from our library may help.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Richard Rohr

Those who read Rohr's book, Things Hidden, Scripture as Spirituality, in one of our fall clas- ses at St. Jude’s will know that Rohr is a chal- lenging but extremely rewarding theologian. In his latest book, Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up."

 

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, by Sara Miles

Thursday's covenant group has been thoroughly enjoying this book by Miles, founder and director of The Food Pantry, and Director of Ministry at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Booklist states, "Her journey from skeptical secularist to devout Christian was long, complicated, and often convoluted (her parents were avid atheists), but the story she makes of it is engaging, funny, and highly enter- taining, including many surprises as well as the occasional wrong turn. Incidentally, Miles comments, often with great insight, on the ugliness that many people associate with a particular brand of Christianity. Why would any thinking person become a Christian? is one of the questions she addresses, and her answer is also compelling reading. "