Book Review
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The Best Review
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1 min read
What is the best review I could ever give a thing? What could I say to make you want to encounter that thing too?
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Jesus Ascended
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4 min read
In Jesus Ascended, Scott Douglas explores Jesus’s Ascension – a theological concept Christians routinely profess and almost never think about.
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Of Heart and Mind
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5 min read
In Heart and Mind, Alexander Shaia gives us a useful path for spiritual growth, offering the gospels as an example and guide. In interviews, Alexander Shaia’s wisdom and profound belief are striking. Hearing him speak to his own story of life and death, invigorates his study. And his interview with Rob Bell about the mythic…
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When I first picked up Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected by Wes Howard-Brook, I found myself sharing its insights immediately. I would walk into the next room and just start in: “Did you know?” I peppered my Thursday Eucharists with reflections and Facebook with random quotes. It was the physical proof…
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In their book The Way of the Dragon Or the Way of the Lamb: Searching For Jesus’ Path of Power In a Church That Has Abandoned It, evangelicals Jamin Goggin and Kyle Strobel explore how the church has wrestled with the nature of power. And as you can guess from the title, the church has more…
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‘Rules for Revolutionaries’ and for Leaders
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9 min read
At once, Becky Bond and Zack Exley’s book, Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything is both manifesto and history. It mines the revolutionary approach to campaigning they pioneered for Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2015 and early 2016 to build a template for organizing and campaigning in the future. They invite people to recognize how…