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2015-06-05T17:39:45-05:00

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How to REALLY understand the #PewReport: Church Refugees by Josh Packard and Ashleigh Hope

Last updated on: June 5, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Guest Contributor

By John Hawthorne I was excited to receive this book by Josh Packard and Ashleigh Hope. It is a sociological report on The Dones: people who have been active in church life but have removed themselves from the institutional church. I first became aware of this phenomenon two years ago thanks to some blog posts by Michelle Van Loon reporting on church decline among those over 40. I returned to the topic the beginning of this year when I became... Read more

2015-05-15T21:33:06-05:00

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Reading the spiritual classics: a guide for evangelicals

Last updated on: May 15, 2015 at 9:33 pm By Byron Borger

I’m going to try to keep this a bit brief. I know, I know, some of you won’t believe me. Some are already buckled down laughing. Well, just watch. Not too brief, though. That wouldn’t be prudent, as George Bush the First used to say. I don’t know if it is prudent to open a can of worms and try to be brief. I hope I don’t step on anyone’s toes. But here goes. You know we sell books at... Read more

Reading the Spiritual Classics

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2015-05-23T16:53:43-05:00

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Faithfully juggling flaming chain saws: 2 books on work-life balance

Last updated on: May 23, 2015 at 4:53 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

This post originally appeared at The Well. Thanks, folks, for letting us reprint it! For the past couple of months, I’ve been carrying around two books with odd titles in my backpack. (Yes, even though I’m 40 years old, I still use a backpack.) One is called Faithful is Successful: Notes to the Driven Pilgrim (which also has a blog accompanying it, found here and is featured in a series at the Emerging Scholars blog) the other, even more startlingly,... Read more

2015-05-19T08:39:44-05:00

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At work as it is in heaven? How to develop a liberating view of work

Last updated on: May 19, 2015 at 8:39 am By The High Calling

This interview originally appeared at The High Calling. J.B. Wood, aka Shrinking Camel, aka the Work Editor for The High Calling, has collected his best columns (actually, all of his columns are best columns) in At Work As It Is in Heaven: 25 Ways to Re-imagine the Spiritual Purpose of Your Work, published as an e-book by Patheos Press. He’s a corporate executive and his writing has been featured at The Conference Board Review, Christianity Today’s faithintheworkplace.com and Men of Integrity,... Read more

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2015-05-15T09:58:32-05:00

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Citizenship as vocation: The Good of Politics by James Skillen (and 13 other good books on that topic too!)

Last updated on: May 15, 2015 at 9:58 am By Byron Borger

“Natural disasters are not the only things shaking the earth.” This is the powerful, provocative first line of a brave new book by James W. Skillen called The Good of Politics: A Biblical, Historical, and Contemporary Introduction (BakerAcademic; $22.99.) I want to ramble around a rumination about it as it is a book that means a lot to me and I think will help you. It is important and I’ll tell you a few of the reasons why. In a... Read more

2015-05-12T14:17:19-05:00

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Living out your faith in daily life: Ordinary Theology series edited by Gene Green

Last updated on: May 12, 2015 at 2:17 pm By Byron Borger

The Cities of Tomorrow and the City to Come: A Theology of Urban Life Noah J. Toly The Scalpel and the Cross: A Theology of Surgery Gene L. Green The Political Disciples: A Theology of Public Life Vincent E. Bacote Faithful: A Theology of Sex Beth Felker Jones One of the themes of each of the speeches collected in my new book, Serious Dreams, is that God cares about all of life, and that we can discern a sense of... Read more

2015-04-27T17:00:36-05:00

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12 books to help us become grown-up Christians

Last updated on: April 27, 2015 at 5:00 pm By Byron Borger

I hope you enjoyed the review I did last week of the latest memoir of the feisty and increasingly skilled writer, Rachel Held Evans. Searching for Sunday told of her frustrations with her experiences of conservative evangelical faith and her embrace of a more sacramental, open-minded sort of mainline denominational church experience. Our bookstore has always worked hard at showing books from various viewpoints and theological traditions, and while there seems to be an abundance these days of well-written memoirs... Read more

2015-04-27T16:50:41-05:00

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4 points on faith and work from Timothy Keller’s Every Good Endeavor

Last updated on: April 27, 2015 at 4:50 pm By Guest Contributor

By Matt Perman I’m going through Keller’s Every Good Endeavor again and taking some notes. Here are four central points from my overall summary of the book (quotes are, interestingly, from the dust jacket — which for most books does a great job of highlighting the core points): A Christian view of work is “that we work to serve others, not ourselves.” We can indeed have “a thriving professional and balanced personal life.” This is a Christian goal, not just a worldly... Read more

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2015-04-24T13:06:48-05:00

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Work is no vacation, right?

Last updated on: April 24, 2015 at 1:06 pm By Mission:Work

We wanted to let you know about a new video from our friends at Christian History Institute which seeks to explain how work, while no vacation, can be a vocation. It’s distinguished particularly by its interviews, not only with experts and theologians, but with everyday people–a waitress, a cop, a stay-at-home-dad, a hairdresser, a small-town mayor, and quite a few others. You can learn more about it at this website: http://www.goingonvocation.com/ as wellas watch a trailer and download some additional... Read more

2015-04-14T14:58:13-05:00

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Do college students care more about thinking like Christians than the rest of us?

Last updated on: April 14, 2015 at 2:58 pm By Byron Borger

This post originally appeared at the blog BookNotes in 2012. These are all STILL great books! I want to show you a few books that you might find interesting, or that you might want to tell others about, but, as is often the case, I want to tell you about them by way of a story. It’s part of who we are, to get these sorts of books out to those who are interested and we believe you, too, are... Read more

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