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Wright Library offers access on the Sabinet African Journals platform to all titles contained in the Religion (excl. T&F) Collection as well as all open access titles.

Sabinet is the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on a single platform.

From a brand-new edited volume featuring disabled authors and creators (Redefining Disability, 2022) to open access e-books to many print books including works by John Swinton, we invite you to delve into this curated bibliography this summer (or winter, depending on your location!).

Links to conference recordings, conversations, articles, websites and social media channels are also included.

Just follow the link below!

Wright Library is pleased to offer trial access to Sabinet African Journals. Access all titles contained in the Religion (excl. T&F) Collection as well as all open access titles.

Sabinet is the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform.

Trial ends July 31, 2022

The print version of The Grace of Being Fallible in Philosophy, Theology, and Religion (2021) co-edited by Thomas John Hastings, Executive Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC) and editor of the International Bulletin of Mission Research has been cataloged and added to the collection, BD171 .G73 2021.

An e-book version continues to be available from Wright Library as well.

Summary from the publisher: "Why is epistemic fallibilism a viable topic for Christian thought and cultural engagement today? Religious fundamentalists and scientific positivists tend to deal with reality in terms of "knockdown" arguments, and such binary approaches to lived reality have helped to underwrite the belligerence and polarization that mark this age of the social media echo chamber. For those who want to take both religion and science seriously, epistemic fallibilism offers a possible moderating stance that claims neither too much nor too little for either endeavor, nor forces a decision for one side over and against the other. This book uses this epistemological approach to fallibilism as a positive resource for conversations that arise at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and religion. The essays explore a range of openings into the interstices of these often siloed fields, with the aim of overcoming some of the impasses separating diverse ways of knowing."

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The wounds of beauty : seven dialogues on art and education by Margarita Mooney Suarez (editor & principal author) is now available in the Wright Library collection.

Call Number: BR115.A8 W68 2022
ISBN: 9781685951115
Publication Date: 2022-05-11

Contributors include Peter Brown, George Harne, Sister Noëlla Marcellino, James Matthew Wilson, David Clayton, Dana Gioia, and Francis X. Maier.

Azusa reimagined : a radical vision of religious and democratic belonging by Keri Day is now available in the Wright Library collection.

Call Number: BX6194.A7 D39 2022
ISBN: 9781503615236
Publication Date: 2022-06-07

An e-book version is also available via eBooks on EBSCOhost (and will be in the library catalog and Summon soon).

This week, as Princeton Theological Seminary hosts The Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching, we're lifting up free preaching resources available online.

One of these is The Earl Palmer Collection, which preserves articles, newsletters, essays, transcripts, study guides, poems, lectures, commentaries and more representing sixty-four years of ministry in digital format with audio and video recordings of sermons and seminars plus selected writings by Reverend Earl F. Palmer, Class of 1956. The collection is part of Princeton Seminary's Theological Commons digital library.

Rev. Earl Palmer has served in pastoral ministries at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Washington; Union Church in Manila, Philippines; First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California and The National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. He is viewed as one of the most gifted teachers of the Bible, with a unique style that unfolds the text and allows the listener to make great discoveries. As such, Earl has gained a reputation as a great expositor.¹ He also has a strong interest in pursuing theological themes that are present in classic and contemporary literature, with particular focus on such authors as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth. As an author, Earl has published numerous articles and eighteen books plus contributed chapters in other published works. After his retirement, Earl Palmer Ministries (EPM) was created so that this teacher can keep sharing his gift with the world.

Find a link to this collection and other free preaching resources in the research guide linked at the bottom of this post.

¹ Old, Hughes Oliphant. The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Vol. 7. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing, 2010. 108.

Beginning Friday, June 17, 2022 at 9:00 pm EDT, approximately 24 hours of downtime of some library services will be required for scheduled maintenance.

This work will affect linking to some library content via our link resolver, 360 Link (including OpenURL linking from Summon), and the Online Journal (E-Journal) Portal.

BrowZine, LibKey and Lean Library could also be impacted during this time.

If you have questions, please contact the Discovery & Web Services Librarian.

The CDC Community Level for Mercer County has been downgraded and is now at medium. At this level, masking is optional indoors. Face coverings are encouraged for those who feel more comfortable, especially those who are immune compromised or have other health concerns.

Selected reading about queer theology, gender, identity, and the church, and more for LGBTQ+ Pride Month from the Wright Library collection.

If you have suggestions of titles to add to this list and/or the library's collection, please let us know!