Coffee for People Who Like To Think

Coming this Saturday is the Church of the Exiles first Coffee for people who like to think at Broadway Roastery.

 

Who: Anyone who wants to discuss with us, Philip Yancey's book, Soul Survivor .

When: Every second Saturday at 8:00 p.m.  Starting February 10th. 

Where: Broadway Roastery at 5 corners on Broadway

 

Cost: Just your coffee and the cost of the book.  If you don't have the book, we will post a link to some background information on the blog of who we are talking about.

Publisher's Weekly said this about the book.

Fans of Yancey's bestseller What's So Amazing About Grace? may not know what to do with this book. In some ways, it is his darkest work ever, chronicling his own lover's quarrel with the institutional church specifically, the church of his childhood that promulgated racism and practiced a pharisaic legalism. In other ways, this book is one of his most hopeful, for in it he charts a spiritual path through all of the muck made by organized religion. As guides, he looks to "a baker's dozen" of thinkers, writers, doctors and activists who have taught him about Christianity. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life shamed Yancey into confronting his own racism and then helped his heart be transformed by Christ's love. Leo Tolstoy taught him self-forgiveness, while Fyodor Dostoyevsky modeled grace as a lived reality. John Donne taught him to wrestle with the ultimate enemy, death; Annie Dillard demonstrated ways to appreciate God in creation; Mahatma Gandhi showed him the power of one individual to change the course of history. The most moving chapter is perhaps the tribute to Paul Brand, an orthopedic surgeon whose work on leprosy helped Yancey to understand how pain can become a gift from God. It's not a perfect book; the chapter on G.K. Chesterton is too short, and the essay on former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop seems superficial in a book with such theological depth. Despite these minor flaws, this multibiography is a much-needed signpost, stubbornly pointing to the life of faith.

The book can be purchased at Amazon.ca, Blessings, McNally Robinson, or Scott Parables.

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