The Best Review
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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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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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In Jesus Ascended, Scott Douglas explores Jesus’s Ascension – a theological concept Christians routinely profess and almost never think about.
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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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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…
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“Bad theology is like pornography–the imagination of a real relationship without the risk of one.” And with that, William Paul Young’s forward to The Divine Dance sets the table for what follows. And propels us into the very substance of our faith. We explore what it is we’re seeking. And why it is we expect more…
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For years, I’ve been trying to think of a way to help people find the essential Jesus of faith. To strip away all the extra, accumulated stuff of Christianity so that they can focus on the core of the faith. Asking questions, finding what is essential to the faith. And in the end, to decide on what’s…