Resources
Bookstore
- St. Paul Book Corner
- Book-lovers
- Global justice connections
- New in books
- Cards & Gifts
- The Anatomy of Grace
- Book recommendations
- Special reading events
Library
Radio & TV
Global justice connections
The Book Corner is committed to stocking gifts and products that provide fair income for the world’s poor.
Taste of justice
Gourmet coffee, tea, and chocolate are provided through Lutheran World Relief’s Fair Trade Coffee Project. Your purchases can help small-scale coffee farmers survive, because more of the money you spend reaches the farmers who actually grow these products.
Fairly-traded gifts
Fairly-traded handicrafts from around the world come to us through three networks of artisans:
Women’s self-sufficiency
- Original T-Bag Designs from Cape Town, South Africa, offers handsome creations made from recycled tea bags.
- The Women’s Bean Project is dedicated to transforming the lives of women. This group specializes in bean soups and salsas.
- The Enterprising Kitchen, a Chicago social project helping change women’s lives, furnishes natural soaps.
Tanzania connection
Our missionaries in Tanzania, Todd & Lori Byerly, supply the Book Corner with lovely carved and crafted items directly from Africa. Proceeds benefit this ELCA mission.
Life and faith
Other vendors provide distinctive gift items that are expressive of a life of faith:
- Brass wall crosses from Creator Mundi
- Fine jewelry from Minnesota artist Deirdre Olson
- Art on consignment from local artists
- CDs from Lutheran college choirs
Book Corner hours
- Sunday mornings
- Wednesdays during the school year, 5:30-7 p.m.
Jan Aplin, Book Corner manager
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, ... For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." ~St. Francis of Assisi