BOOK NOTES

 

While they are especially for women, everyone may delight in a new series by Westminister Press on Choices: Guides for Today’s Woman. There are several attractive volumes, brief (about 120 pages) and easy-to-read: Identity (Who Am I?); Sexuality Sexuality (Affirm sexuality as God’s gift); Nuture (Care effectively for’ others and your-self); Emotions (Live creatively with your feelings); Roles (How to balance man different relationships); Other People (Get along well with those around you); Singleness (the joy of single living). These are 5.95 each, postpaid. They sparkle with relevance. If you order one, you are likely to want the others. The authors are all women.

The Meanest Man in Texas, published by a major publisher (Thomas Nelson), is the shocking story of Clyde Thompson, who gained the infamy of being Texas’ meanest man both for the murders he committed and the betrayals and brutality he inflicted on fellow prisoners in the Texas penal system. Then a wonderful change in his life was wrought. He became a minister (Church of Christ) and spent many years as a prison chaplain. This true story was written by Don Umphrey, who teaches at Texas Tech U. 6.95 postpaid.

By way of special purchase we can send you the 18-vol. Daily Bible Study on the NT by the late William Barclay at 20% discount, which means a price of 83.00, postpaid.

Who is for Life? (Mother Teresa, Francis Schaeffer, Malcolm Muggeridge, John R. W. Stott, et al) is a judgment on abortion that may startle you, worry you, or anger you, but you will find it informative. 2.95 postpaid.

Interpreting Revelation, by Merrill Tenney, may be the most important book you can read on the Bible’s most perplexing book. 9.95 postpaid.

Memoirs of Alexander Campbell by Robert Richardson is still in print at 21.95 postpaid, and it remains the most important work on our heritage. A new book, Crying in the Wilderness, a biography of David Lipscomb, by Robert Hooker, deals with a much more recent period of our history, and is informative on Church of Christ beginnings. 12.95 postpaid.