Apr il, 2015

April 12 - 18

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April 13th Character Dress Up

April 14th Haiku Poem

April 16th

Pop Up Book Fair

National Library Week

Remember growing up reading all your favorite books? Well now you have the opportunity to bring those favorite characters to life. The Swilley Library staff will be in costume as their favorite book characters and invite all students to dress up as theirs and come to the library and show off their amazing costumes on April 13th. Swilley bags for all contestants and prizes for the top three best dressed.

Your classmates w i l l decide the w inner. Come j oin us for a day of fun, pictures, and treats!

Haiku is one of the most important forms of traditional japanese poetry. During the monthof April, poetry is celebratedas well as National Library Week. With poetry bookscataloged at numerous libraries, we recognize this form of poetry. Haiku is a poem written in a 17 syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Haiku can describe almost anything. It is fun and creative!On April 14th, Swilley Library invites students to write and post their creative Haiku in the library.

Prize for the best Haiku winner.

For more info visit http:/ /www.toyomasu.com/haiku

"Need to study now!Quiet room, books, and

laptopSwilley Library"

-Haiku Poem

HAIKU HAIKU HAiKU!!

YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER

DATABASE SPOTLIGHT

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Easy to use and rich in content, Children?s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is the best single place to search for children?s and young adult book reviews, curriculum tools, reading metrics, award winners, reading lists, and more.

Search by keyword, subject, genre, reading level, title, and/or author/illustrator and narrow down your results by lexile range, reader?s age, grade level, language, publication date, and more. The reviews are drawn from trusted sources including Kirkus, Booklist, VOYA, and Publishers Weekly. Suggested titles are also included for each search result.

CLCD also includes themed reviews, author features, and original articles on issues in Pre K-12 education. CLCD links you to Mercer University Libraries? catalog when the book is included in our collection.

Do you need to come up with 11 picture books about spring for a lesson plan? What about reviews of the latest YA bestseller? CLCD is your one-stop search tool. From the library homepage, click on Databases and choose it from the alphabetized list.

Join us for our popular Spring Pop Up Book Fair! The fair will be on Thursday, April 16th from 10am-2pm on the campus plaza near the theology building.

The book fair will be offering hardbacks for $1.00 and paperbacks for 50¢ . Fill up a Swilley Library book tote and get everything you can fit in the tote for $10.00 (plus a free tote bag). Come by and join the fun (and get some great books)!

Rain date is Tuesday, April 20th.

SPRING POP UP BOOK FAIR

The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the M ind collects some of Alister McGrath?s occasional speeches and writings on practicing Christian theology and apologetics. During his preparation to study chemistry at Oxford he studied philosophies of science. These suggested interpretations of science that neither proved nor required his atheism. Subsequent study of theology led to his Christian conversion. This path led him to his role of Christian apologist.

McGrath believes that theology offers active Christians a map of the landscape of faith, and a lens for everyday experience. When Christians share their individual journeys they can combine into a landscape. Theology offers a map of that landscape. It roots that landscape with tradition and guiding vision. McGrath believes that theology also offers a transforming lens ?through which (Christians) look to discern the transcendent in the everyday.? (p.55)

For McGrath, apologetics is necessary for the Christian mission to the wider world. It should ?demonstrate? the reasonableness of faith, and ?embody? it in appeals to specific audiences (p. 96). Apologetics is concerned with their need for life-narrative answers to questions of identity and meaning.

McGrath delves into the relation of Christian faith to natural science, and the ?culture war? of the ?New Atheism.? McGrath insists that natural science cannot disprove Christian faith?s ?life narrative.? He then offers extensive arguments that

the polemics of the ?New Atheism? of Richard Dawkins and others have stumbled across this boundary, but only offer a naive Enlightenment ?reason? to replace religious narratives.

The Passionate Intellect is an introduction to McGrath?s thinking, and a tasty sampler of his responses. If you care about McGrath's issues, then we wish you bon appétit.

Book Review

Book Review / Ken Scott

The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the M ind

"M CGRATH BELIEVES THAT THEOLOGY ALSO OFFERS A

TRANSFORMING LENS ?THROUGH WHICH (CHRISTIANS) LOOK TO DISCERN THE TRANSCENDENT IN

THE EVERYDAY."

DON'T FORGET!!!!

Money Smart Week is a public awareness campaign designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances. Organizations across the country provide free educational seminars and activities that stress the importance of financial literacy.

MONEY SMART WEEK

April 18-25th

CREATING A BUDGET FOR PERSONAL SUCCESSWednesday, April 22nd 11:30am - 1:00pm

location: Swilley Lounge

Al Parker from the Society for Financial Education and Professional Development will discuss this topic. This presentation will provide the keys to living within your current means and plans for future success and independence.

FINAL EXAMS MAY 4TH - MAY 9TH Enjoy a snack break

and stress relief.

WOOHOOO