Selected Reading, May 9, 2020
Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 3:30AM 
This week’s reading recommendations.
Christian History
10 Things You Should Know about the Church’s Historic Creeds and Confessions
Ten reasons to love the historic creeds and confessions.
Christine de Pizan - Theologian and Mother
A biographical sketch of Christine de Pizan, the first professional woman writer in France, who was also a single mother (Simonetta Carr).
Book Recommendations
Why I Keep Returning to an Old Book on Atonement
Randy Newman writes: “The Atonement examines our Messiah’s death and resurrection through a multifaceted lens of New Testament words—covenant, sacrifice, Day of Atonement, Passover, redemption, reconciliation, propitiation, and justification. The cumulative effect fits well under the banner, ‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.’ Indeed, Morris’s work is both worship-inducing and sanctification-accelerating.”
I’ve been recommending this book for years. I’m not sure how many people I actually convinced to read it, but you really should read The Atonement by Leon Morris!
Mother’s Day Book Giveaway!
If you are on Facebook, you can enter this giveaway of the four books (so far) in the Good Portion Books series. But you need to hurry! (And while we are on the subject, here’s an interview with Jenny Manley, author of The Good Portion: Christ, one of the two new books in the series out this spring.)
