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February 2019

February 26, 2019

Even the Faith Giants Didn’t Always Get it Right: Q&A With Frank Viola

In November 2014, bestselling author Frank Viola was given a special task by Rick Warren....

March 2017

March 23, 2017

Learning About the Christian Faith: The Bible Is My Best Friend

By Jake Raabe Children’s Bibles are a difficult sub-genre for publishers to work with. The...

August 2016

August 08, 2016

Surface Tensions: A Q&A with Millennial Author Nathan Roberts

"'Surface Tensions' refers to the tension between inside and outside, isolation and interaction, solipsism and interpersonal...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

God Unbound: Wisdom for the Church in Anxious Times

My relationship with the books of the Bible is the same as it is with...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

The Pursuing God: A Video Q&A with Joshua Ryan Butler

His first book was called The Skeletons In God's Closet: The Mercy of Hell, The...

May 11, 2016

Called To Community: A Review

Book publishers spend a lot of time and energy on subtitles. Sometimes titles don’t quite get...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Tasting God: A Q&A with Ginny Kubitz Moyer

"Take a moment to run through the five senses: Where did you see God today?...

April 19, 2016

“Honestly”: Riffing on Messy Lives, Jesus, and Jazz

Attitudes, especially bad ones, pop up at the most interesting moments. At a church we...

April 18, 2016

The Power of the Cross: A Review

One might wonder why an established old school publisher like Moody Press would put out...

April 01, 2016

Getting Real About Jesus and Our Messy Lives: A Q&A Daniel Fusco

This month in the Patheos Book Club, we're talking about the new book from NavPress, Honestly:...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

The Soul-Making Room: A Conversation with Dee Dee Risher

"This is a book about becoming authentic, which I think is not possible to do...

March 16, 2016

Tony Evans on the Power of the Cross

"We need a right view of the cross. It is both a historical event that...

February 2016

February 22, 2016

40 Days of Decrease: A Different Kind of Lent Book

Lent is a partisan animal. How much we pay attention to it largely depends on...

February 02, 2016

Five Reasons There’s No Getting Past Religion

By David Dark Author, Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious Five Reasons There's...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

Becoming a Recovery-Friendly Church: A Q&A with Jonathan Benz

"The truth is people are already suffering from addiction in our pews. The issue is...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Fractured Not Broken: A Q&A with Kelly Schaefer

Reading the new memoir Fractured Not Broken is a practice in humility and compassion. I've walked by...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Happiness: A Book Review

[Editor's Note: This post is part of a conversation at the Patheos Book Club on the...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Where Jesus Prayed: A Q&A with Danielle Shroyer

"I wanted people to see this book as a way of imagining the Lord's Prayer...

September 18, 2015

Stripped: A Q&A with Heather King on Cancer and her Catholic Faith

"I didn’t see my cancer a blessing—please!—but I did see it as a mystery. To...

September 01, 2015

What’s The Cause Church? A Q&A with jKonrad Hölé

"Church is detrimental to the individual cause, because too much of current day church postures itself as...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Encountering Jesus: Real Stories from Real People

Book Review Encountering Jesus: Modern-Day Stories of His Supernatural Presence and Power Compiled by James...

August 13, 2015

Daddy God: A Review of Abba’s Heart

by Wendi Matusic If you, like me, can't see the word "Abba" without thinking "Dancing...

July 2015

July 09, 2015

Moving Toward Divinization: A Review of ‘Broken Gods’

By Wendi Matusic Broken Gods, a new book by Gregory Popcak, an internationally recognized expert in Catholic pastoral...

July 09, 2015

Dissecting Patriachy and Biblical Manhood: A Review of ‘Maelstrom’

To appreciate quality, we must slow down. In fact, quality insists that we slow down....

June 2015

June 05, 2015

Undivided: A Story of Love, Not Agreement

By Holly Baer Patricia and Alana Raybon found themselves enraptured in the new American story:...

June 01, 2015

All Good Stories Begin with Questions: Why I Wrote The Master Yeshua

"All good stories begin with questions." -- Joyce Luck, author, The Master Yeshua Many people...

June 01, 2015

On Biblical Manhood: A Q&A with Author Carolyn Custis James

"For me, writing this book has left me as disturbed about what is happening to...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Runaway Radical: A Groundbreaking Expose of Systematic Abuse

By Kevin C. Neece In Runaway Radical, Amy Hollingsworth continues to do what she does...

March 2015

March 13, 2015

Maximus: A Q&A with Richard L. Black

This month in the Patheos Book Club, we're featuring the new book Maximus, by Richard...

March 02, 2015

St. Patrick, AA, and Vulnerable Faith: A Q&A with Jamie Arpin-Ricci

"Who willingly exposes their weaknesses? Yet that is exactly that path Jesus calls us to...

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