Enter to win a copy of Reborn on the Fourth of July (Patheos Book Club)

Last updated on: July 3, 2012 at 8:10 am by Christopher Smith

Enter to win a copy of Reborn on the Fourth of July (Patheos Book Club) 2012-07-03T08:10:07-05:00 Christopher Smith

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Nationalistic faith is one of the “sins of abstraction” that we push back against in the in Slow Church book because in preferring one nation over others, it fails to consider the whole of God’s work in reconciling all creation.

Thus, I was delighted to see that the current Patheos book club title is Logan Mehl-Laituri’s Reborn on the Fourth of July…

For decades now, the United States has proudly claimed the mantle of “the world’s only superpower” based on military might and the scope of military interventions throughout the world. As a result, whole generations are growing up with the understanding that war is the norm, that perpetual conflict is a way of life. But is it the way of Christ? Logan Mehl-Laituri grew up in a community that celebrated military service. His faith reinforced his love of country and his sense that that love was best expressed by fighting its battles. Then he went to war, and then he was born again. In Reborn on the Fourth of July you’ll learn through Logan’s story the real cost of war to military personnel, the real challenges to Christians that are raised by military service on and even off the battlefield, and the real questions that each of us must wrestle with as we hold in tension our love of country with God’s love for the world.

The Englewood Review of Books is giving away five copies of REBORN… this week! Click here and enter to win!

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