Meet the Authors!
Please mark your calendars! Come join us Sunday March 10 and plan to meet both George Martin and Bruce McNab in The Other Cup following the 10:15 service. George will be discussing his book “Paul Found in His Letters” and Bruce will be discussing his books “Believing is Seeing” A Guide for Responding to John’s Gospel and “Finding the Way” Restarting your Journey with Jesus. These are wonderful books and it will be so special to hear about them and how they came to be from their authors. Their books will be available and the authors will look forward to any questions you might have for them, so plan on spending a delightful afternoon from 11:30-12:30. Refreshments will be served.
George Martin is an independent Pauline scholar and (more famously) father to Kate Fimbres, our Minister for Youth and Parish Life. The book, published in 2022 by Claremont Press, is the story of Paul in the history of the first century based on the seven letters all scholars agree he wrote. Martin explains why the accounts in the Book of Acts and in the Pastoral Epistles represent the “remembered Paul” coming decades after his letters. The letters reveal a different Paul in his own voice. With its unique focus on these seven letters this isn’t a biography of Paul, but it offers some amazing things about Paul in the context of Imperial Rome and pervasive slavery. This picture of Paul places women at his side as co-workers with him, and as active participants in leadership and worship. Paul’s travels that took him to Arabia and his desire to take the Gospel to Spain bring the history, economic, and social realities of the first century to the light of day.
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Bruce McNab became an Episcopal priest in 1972. Before retiring from full-time parish ministry in 2011, he served as rector of five different parishes as well as being a guest preacher, teacher, workshop speaker, and retreat leader for congregations, dioceses, and organizations in the USA and overseas. A graduate of Austin College, Princeton University, and the General Theological Seminary, Bruce McNab now lives with his wife, Joan, at the foot of the Bridger Mountains in Bozeman, MT, in the summer and in Scottsdale, AZ, in winter months. His most recent book is Believing is Seeing.
Questions? Please contact Kate Fimbres or call the church office at 480-948-5560.