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"I love good stories, well-told. I love good books, well-crafted. I also love to share ideas that stories and books evoke in us. So, I offer this invitation. Let's read together. Good stories enrich our imagination which in turn enriches our life together, our teaching, and our preaching." - Hope Morgan Ward

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Longing for Enough

Paul Escamilla

7/16/2008

Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Thoughts on Religion, Morality and Politics

Adam Hamilton

3/18/2008

Native Guard

Natasha Tretheway

3/4/2008

Three Simple Rules

Rueben Job

1/15/2008

Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition

Christine Pohl

10/3/2007

Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege Toward Racial Reconciliation

Jody Miller Shearer

7/18/2007

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver

7/1/2007

The Gospel According to Starbucks

Leonard Sweet

5/2/2007

Christianity for the Rest of Us

Diana Butler Bass

4/18/2007

The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West...Again

George G. Hunter III

3/7/2007

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Longing for Enough

Published: 7/16/2008

Written By: Paul Escamilla

In a world where we mostly long for more, this lovely book invites us to long for enough.

In this slim volume, Paul Escamilla opens up the Biblical heartbeat of goodness. Goodnessrather than over-reaching greatness. Goodness resonant in the creation stories of Genesis, goodness of life and work and community and creatureliness. , rooted in a deep sense of God's abundance. "The creaturely person seems to need little and to offer much."

It is good to explore the idea of enough.

Escamilla is a very good writer. His prose is poetic, his thoughts are lovely while deeply true. He explores the mysteries of God who cherishes us while challenging us.

I am reading the short chapters, one each day, for 25 days. In doing so, I am being blessed.

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