Just for fun...

I should have put this up last week but I didn't think of it until now. Here's an interesting book in our library about Halloween: Halloween and Satanism by Phil Phillips and Joan Hake Robie; it's found at 133.4 P545h on our shelf. The celebration of Halloween has become quite controversial in the past several years -- read to find out why!

And in the interest of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday -- check out this book from our library: Thanksgiving : an investigation of a Pauline theme by David Pao (found on our shelf at 227.06 P196t). Here's an excerpt from the product description: "The 'Be thankful' (Colossians 3:15) is a recurring exhortation in the letters of the apostle Paul. No other New Testament writer gives such a sustained emphasis on thanksgiving--and yet, major modern studies of Paul fail to wrestle with it. David Pao aims to rehabilitate this theme in this comprehensive and accessible study, a New Studies in Biblical Theology volume. He shows how, for Paul, thanksgiving is grounded in the covenantal traditions of salvation history. To offer thanks to God is to live a life of worship and to anticipate the future acts of God, all in submission to the lordship of Christ. Ingratitude to God is idolatry. Thanksgiving functions as a link between theology, including eschatology, and ethics. Here Pao provides clear insights into the passion of an apostle who never fails to insist on the significance of both the gospel message and the response this message demands."

As you can see, we are in a festive mood at the library!