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October 2014

October 22, 2014

An Invitation to Taste and See this Advent Season

The sacred anticipation of Advent and the joy of Christmastide often seem dimmed and fraught...

October 22, 2014

Chuck Swindoll’s Abraham: A Book Review

Abraham. A major figure in three of the world’s major faiths, this quite ordinary man...

October 20, 2014

Advent as Sensation and Immersion: A Review of “Taste & See”

Advent devotionals are among my absolutely most favorite things in the world. Each year, as...

October 15, 2014

Three Tips for Facing the Future without Worry

By Amy Simpson Author, Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry I can relate...

October 14, 2014

Abraham as Archetype, Abraham as Man

As an academic, I am pretty much required by contract to embrace complexity: to be...

October 08, 2014

Called: A Book Review

I began reading Mark Labberton’s Called: The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today the...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Preventing Suicide: A Book Review

“Religion protects against suicide.” --Karen Mason, Preventing Suicide At the heart of the Christian gospel...

September 24, 2014

Providing Hope and Preventing Suicide

by Anna Quinn Karen Mason’s Preventing Suicide arrived in my mail box the day before...

September 23, 2014

Colliding with Destiny by Sarah Jakes: A Book Review

Colliding with Destiny: Finding Hope in the Legacy of Ruth, written by Sarah Jakes (daughter...

September 22, 2014

Reviving the Congregation: A Book Review

As has become popular among writers of contemporary Christian non-fiction, Pastor Michael W. Foss assumes...

September 19, 2014

The Sacred Year: A Book Review

I began reading The Sacred Year the way I begin reading most books: on the...

September 16, 2014

Sobering Stats on Suicide

This month in the Patheos Book Club, we're featuring a new resource for religious leaders...

September 15, 2014

You’re Not Your Past or Your Pain: Lessons from the Book of Ruth

by Bethanie Ryan In her new book Colliding with Destiny, Sarah Jakes explores the book of...

September 15, 2014

Undiluted: A Book Review

The central premise of "Former Fundie" blogger Benjamin Corey's first book Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical...

September 03, 2014

Ben Corey’s Undiluted: A Review

We coin the phrase “paradigm shift” to describe a complete change of frame of reference,...

September 03, 2014

J.R. Briggs’ Fail: A Review

If one duty of the church is—as Proverbs 31 commands—to "speak on behalf of the...

August 2014

August 19, 2014

Interwoven with the Great Cloud of Witnesses: A Review of “Introduction to the History of Christianity”

Book Review: Introduction to the History of Christianity, Second Edition, Edited by Tim Dowley One of the...

August 18, 2014

When Believers and Nonbelievers Marry: A Q&A with Dale McGowan

Across America, particularly among adults under age 33, secularism is on the rise. Nearly one...

August 04, 2014

Teach Us To Want: A Review

If, as Madeleine L'Engle has written, a book "can be a star, 'explosive material, capable...

July 2014

July 15, 2014

Teach Us to Want: A Q&A with Author Jen Pollock Michel

In her new book, Teach Us To Want, Jen Pollock Michel guides us on a...

July 08, 2014

Connecting Two Poles: Saints and Social Justice

Book Review -- Saints and Social Justice: A Guide to Changing the World, by Brandon...

July 01, 2014

Face to Face with Jesus: A Review

Beyond inspiring individual Christians to rethink what it means to suffer for Christ or to...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

How The West Really Lost God: A Review

About halfway through grad school course work, I had a professor who asked each student...

June 09, 2014

Got Religion? A Book Review

I am a millennial. Born in 1983, I fall smack dab in the middle of...

June 02, 2014

Vinh Chung’s “Where the Wind Leads”: A Review

The first time I was inspired to buy 317 million copies of a book and...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Got Religion? A Q&A with Naomi Schaefer Riley

"If you have been reading the surveys and looking around at your own congregation and...

May 29, 2014

In Praise of Slowness: A Q&A with Slow Church authors Chris Smith and John Pattison

"By learning to live a slow, attentive life together in our churches, we give our neighbors...

May 22, 2014

God and the Gay Christian: An Evangelical Response

I liked "God and the Gay Christian" because it got me more engaged with my...

May 15, 2014

The Problem of Gendercide: A Q&A with Elizabeth Gerhardt

In her new book, The Cross and Gendercide: A Theological Response to Global Violence Against Women...

May 15, 2014

Where the Wind Leads: A Q&A with Vinh Chung

As you can see in my family, the actions we take in this world can...