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June 2017

June 29, 2017

How the Church Can Heal the Race Divide

A chart featured in The Myth of Equality compares the amount of time that slavery...

May 2017

May 10, 2017

Finding Inspiration in “Where Angels Walk”

Whatever the current state of organized religion, most Americans still believe in angels—a full 72...

May 09, 2017

Happiness Is Found Outside of Our Comfort Zones

Is it more important to be happy or comfortable? Is comfort and happiness the same...

May 05, 2017

Symbols of Faith in “Take the Flag”

A symbol can sometimes convey an idea better than a thousand words of explication. This...

May 04, 2017

A Compass for the Earthly Race

Life is abuzz with media input and our fast-paced lives are making us spin. Stepping...

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...

October 2016

October 03, 2016

God’s People in the House: A Patheos Q&A with Virginia Foxx

"It may have surprised readers to see how vital prayer is in the individual and...

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 25, 2016

What Makes Someone Jewish? A Book Review

By Sarahbeth Caplin It was with great personal interest that I read Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish...

July 20, 2016

Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity

In his new book on Jewish identity, Shalom Goldman shows us that it’s not easy...

June 2016

June 09, 2016

Us Versus Us: A Q&A with Author Andrew Marin

"I'm more concerned with working towards dialogue that actually promotes a shift in social engagement and relations...

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 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...

November 02, 2015

The Vulnerable Pastor: A Q&A with Mandy Smith

"When so many are disillusioned by a manipulative or dogmatic church, how refreshing will it...

October 2015

October 06, 2015

On Dying Well: A Q&A with Author Janet Wehr

"Perhaps the best gift of all that has come to me in my hospice work...

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 15, 2015

At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture and Christ: 15 Years Later

[Editor's Note: As part of this month's Book Club on the memoir Stripped: At the...

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....