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​Christian Aid Week: 15 -21 May 2022

6/5/2022

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Christian Aid has made a press release for the Booksale as follows – you might spot it somewhere:

“The Holy Corner book sale is much loved and has been a feature of the Bruntsfield community for many years. This year we’ll be selling an excellent selection of Scottish and collectible books, paperback fiction, history, art and children's books as well as many others. We look forward to opening our doors in May and once again raising money for Christian Aid, a charity that does amazing work with those living in extreme poverty.”

We look forward to welcoming you to the sale at Morningside United Church, in the Main Hall – entry via the lane from Bruntsfield Place.

Saturday 14 May 10am – 5pm (Refreshments available 10am – 4pm in small Hall)
Sunday 15 May 1pm – 5pm or visit us at www.holycornerbooksale.wordpress.com

That gives a good summary of what it’s about and when – anyone able to help during the sale please use the website link – also on the MUC website or speak to David or Lesley Donald. We’re grateful for help from a few strong members of the Romanian Church for box shifting, so the sale tasks are lighter duties. If you can help with refreshments on the Saturday, please speak to Yvonne Burnett.

Our Christian Aid Week Service is on 10.30am 15 May at Marchmont St Giles and includes MUC, the German Church Congregation and St Catherine’s Argyle. Christian Aid Envelopes will be available at that service for you to donate. They will also be available the week before and after at MUC. There are online donation options also on the Christian Aid Website.

Christian Aid also makes individual donation pages for churches - Morningside United Church Christian Aid Week 2022 (give-star.com). We have a ‘Give Star’ device that will let us take contactless card payments at the Booksale also. Donations made by the device, or the special page go direct to Christian Aid and are recorded to our total. Cash or cheques go into our Christian Aid bank account and are paid out to Christian Aid later.
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Book Reviews for Lent

7/3/2022

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The Print of the Nails by Hugh Hillyard-Parker (Ed.) 


By Hugh Hillyard-Parker (Ed.)
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£18.99) 

All the writings in The Print of the Nails appeared in the Church Times between 2000 and 2021, and have been edited and collated by Hugh Hillyard Parker, accompanied by a witty introduction from Paul Handley – 67 pieces in all, from a galaxy of  accomplished writers with their fingers on the  pulse of Christian thinking: modern but orthodox, original yet devotional, full of wisdom and light.  

This book will enrich your life, for it reminds us in this soundbite age that thoughtful written words and well-constructed arguments are still powerful forms of communication.  The essay is not yet dead. 
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Enjoy this book – it will illuminate the Easter season for you, not just in  2022, but in the years to come. 

All royalties from this book will go to the Church Homeless Trust. ​

Women of Holy Week: An Easter Journey in Nine Stories

By Paula Gooder (£9.99) 

This little Lenten treasure is a joy to read and handle, with beautiful illustrations of the nine stories of these women by Ally Barrett. The author leads us through Lent with a collection of the women’s stories - women whose names are lesser known from the Bible and whose lives have not been explored in detail – until now!

​Each woman’s story is given to us 
in simple everyday language using the Bible’s information but written in an imaginative, modern way. And each story is imaginatively illustrated with particular insight and  understanding; the collection then forming a triptych.  

Enjoy and give respect to these women…you will not regret treating  yourself or a dear one to this book!
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Christian Aid Week: 15 -21 May 2022

7/3/2022

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The Christian Aid Week activity that MUC hosts is the annual Booksale. 

Before Covid, we were able to raise sums in the order of £15k, and  obviously, Covid has prevented us from being able to run any kind of sale  over the last two years. However, now there is a plan to run the Booksale in 2022. The sale is organised by a committee that spreads wider than MUC, who have spent time thinking and discussing what might be possible.
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Our intention is to hold a sale in the Main Hall on Saturday 14 May  throughout the day and then in the afternoon of Sunday 15 May. We will  have best-selling topics from our previous sales – Scottish books,  collectibles, paperback fiction and possibly one or two others. 

If you have only been at the booksale as a browser or buyer, you may not  be aware of all the activity that goes on behind the scenes collecting, sorting, moving books and setting up the Sanctuary. There are a lot of  books that were collected for the 2020 sale and for this year’s sale no new books are to be taken in. Disposing of what doesn’t sell has become a more significant issue. Unfortunately, the social enterprise, BookDonors, which we worked with before no longer exists. 

At the last booksale in 2019 there were about 50 volunteers from local  churches - Christ Church, Greenbank, St Peters, Marchmont St Giles, Reid Memorial and St John's and many with no direct connection with a church.  Obviously with Covid not all of these feel able to return to help. 
The aim is of course to raise as much money as possible for Christian Aid.  And to this end we really need help in moving the large volumes of books  up and down from the basement. If you can help to move books before  and after the sale, it really would be appreciated. There are other less strenuous tasks as well, but that is the main need. 
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More information is available from David and Lesley Donald if you are  interested in helping (churchoffice.muc@gmail.com). You can also use the  contact form on the Booksale website.  (https://holycornerbooksale.wordpress.com/)

Other Christian Aid week activities may be planned later along with Marchmont St Giles and St Catherine’s Argyle in our cluster grouping.
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Books for the New Year

3/2/2022

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Looking for something new to read?  Check these out...
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Tackling Mental Illness Together 
By Alan Thomas, CPO, £9.99 
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It can be difficult to know how to understand and  
support those suffering from mental illnesses. This book offers a biblical framework for helping the mentally ill, by synthesising the relevant biblical material with our scientific understanding of mental illness. 

This framework will help you to deal wisely,  
intelligently, and compassionately with issues of  
mental health in your church and in your community.
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Changing the Climate: applying the Bible in a climate emergency 
By Debbie, David and Jamie Hawker  
Hawker, BRF, £9.99 
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The climate crisis is one of the most important issues of our time, threatening lives and livelihoods. The  Bible teaches us that God the Creator put humans on  the Earth to take care of it; to show love to all, and to  care for the poor and vulnerable. 

This workbook shows how the Bible is relevant to  
environmentalism, and how we can all play our part in limiting the negative  effects of climate change. Each of the 12 chapters looks at a particular  Bible passage, connects it with climate action, poses questions and suggests  practical steps that can be taken. ​
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