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I recently read Will Samson’s latest book Enough: Contentment in an Age of Excess. When I first started the book, I half-expected it to be a diatribe against modern culture, focusing on the sins of our excess. While the book does mention those excesses, what I found instead was a call to [...]
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009Book Review: The Next Evangelicalism
I am a little nervous writing a review of this book. On one hand there is a lot I like about Soong-Chan Rah’s The Next Evangelicalism, but the book also raised some serious questions for me. But I’m white, and this is a book about identifying and moving beyond the white Western [...]
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Book Giveaway - Mama’s Got a Fake I.D.
So Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeneira, the author of the fantastic new book Mama’s Got a Fake ID: How to Reveal the Real You Behind All That Mom, has offered to let me do a giveaway of her book here. That means all you cool people have a chance to win a FREE copy of [...]
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Book Review: Find Your Way Home
I recently had the opportunity to read through Find Your Way Home: Words from the Street, Wisdom from the Heart. This short book is a collection of reflections by the women of Magdalene. Magdalene is a two-year residential community for women who have survived lives of prostitution, violence, and abuse. The [...]
Friday, March 20th, 2009Book Review: Mama’s Got a Fake I.D.
So I don’t think it’s much of a secret that I have some serious issues with the typical messages the church sends to moms. I refuse to accept that my entire identity is wrapped up in my children - that my only calling in life is to serve them. I love my [...]
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Book Review - Sacred Encounters
I recently had the opportunity to read Tamara Park’s Sacred Encounters from Rome to Jerusalem. In all honestly, it’s not the sort of book that I would generally pick up to read, but I found myself glad to have encountered this story. In short the book is a travel narrative, but like [...]
Thursday, February 5th, 2009Book Review - Eve’s Bible
I tried to like this book, I really did. But some things are just a little too over the top. The idea of Eve’s Bible by Sarah S. Forth sounded good - an examination of women in the Old Testament that would help women as we encounter scripture. I’m all for [...]
Thursday, June 5th, 2008God Uses Disciples
I’ve been reading through Brian McLaren’s newest book, Finding Our Way Again, an exploration of spiritual practices. I am enjoying his down to earth everyday perspective on the spiritual practices and have appreciated how he has integrated other issues he has written about into his thoughts on these topics. Our spiritual lives must [...]
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Book Review - Jesus Made in America
I recently finished reading Stephen J. Nichols’ Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to The Passion of the Christ (IVP 2008). When I first received this book, I was excited to read it. The concept intrigued me - an historical overview of how the cultural sensibilities of different eras [...]
Monday, May 12th, 2008Let’s Talk About Sex
Disclaimer – Really long post ahead that is sure to piss at least a few people off. Enjoy.
I’m usually very wary about Christian books that deal with sex for two basic reasons. Generally they so super-spiritualize sex that it becomes nearly indistinguishable from say a prayer meeting or worship service. Secondly [...]
Book Review - My Beautiful Idol
So I recently joined the group of Ooze Select bloggers which basically means I get to read cool books and review them here. Works for me. The first selection I was sent was Peter Gall’s My Beautiful Idol. Before I go any further though I do have a confession to make. [...]
Monday, February 25th, 2008Good Intentions?
So it is really amusing to hear through the grapevine that Moody Press has just published a book that discusses me and my underwear choices. Apparently chapter 8 of the recently released book Good Intentions uses a poorly (barely) paraphrased version of my “Justice Bra” article from the God’s Politics blog as an extended [...]
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