One of the biggest things that I've learned in the last two years at seminary is how our view of scripture is influenced by the things in our lives. As a middle-class white male living in the suburbs of a large U.S. city, the gospel means something completely different to me than it does to a young African girl that has to walk five miles a day for just to retrieve fresh water for her family. Our scriptures may have the same words but the messages we receive are different. This is the subject matter of Scouting the Divine: my search for God in wine, wool, and wild honey.
Margaret Feinberg, a speaker at this year's Catalyst Conference as well as recent CreationFest and YouthSpecialties event, spoke about her journey into the lives of a shepherd, a beekeeper and a vintner and how those people have forever changed the way that she reads scripture. The author of Organic God and The Sacred Echo gave each attendee of Catalyst a copy of her book and I'd like to offer it to one of our readers.
To celebrate the launch of her new book, she's organizing a 100-stop blog tour and I would like this Bookworm site to be one of those stops. Sadly, I won't have time to read the book until after classes which means I would miss the cutoff date of November 20. So, if you can read quickly (it's only around 200 pages) and will agree to post a review here (you may cross-post elsewhere) by November 20th (though I would prefer the 13th) leave a creative comment that will let me know who you are and what flair you would bring and I'll pick a winner on October 20th. I'll go for what I think will be best for the blog, but in the case of a runoff, I'll choose randomly between the best comments.
Good Luck!
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