Entries Categorized as 'Books'

Take This Bread: A Review

April 10, 2008

I just finished reading Sara Miles’s “Take This Bread” last night. I always love reading spiritual memoirs, and this one is great - very much in the spirit of Anne Lamott’s “Traveling Mercies.” Miles’s conversion is very similar to Lamott’s, who just happened to find herself in a church one day. While Miles wasn’t under [...]

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“We’re Looking For A Few Good Bloggers!”

March 24, 2008

The Ooze, the Web’s most prolific ‘emerging church & friends’ website, is looking for 50 participants in a unique partnership with quality publishers. You will be mailed books for blog review on an every-other-month to quarterly basis, free of charge. These are books on culture, theology, church history, justice, faith & science, global issues, spirituality, [...]

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The New Christians: A Review

March 10, 2008

UPDATE: Book giveaway. I have 4 copies of “The New Christians” to send to the first four people who email me with a picture of Tony’s footwear of choice while he’s on the road.
Prior to reading The New Christians, I have always told everyone that Pete Rollins’s How (Not) to Speak of God has been [...]

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Tribal Church: A Review

March 5, 2008

I first ran across Carol Howard Merritt last fall. Her husband (pastor and blogger Brian Merritt) informed me about her blog, Tribal Church, and her book, also called Tribal Church. Carol is graduate of Austin Theological Seminary and is currently a Presbyterian pastor at Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C and a friend of presbymergent. [...]

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Everything Must Change: A Review

February 20, 2008

This review will be appearing in Sharing the Practice, the journal put out by the Academy of Parish Clergy.
In his newest book, Everything Must Change, Brian McLaren tackles two questions: first, What are the biggest problems in the world and second, What does Jesus have to say about these global problems? Through the title alone, [...]

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Book Tagged

January 22, 2008

So I was recently tagged in a books post. I’m not generally a fan of questions like “What is your favorite book?” or other “favorite” questions like that. But I thought I’d give this one a try, since I do like books.
1. One book that changed your life
That’s a pretty bold claim, a book that [...]

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Brian McLaren & Jim Wallis at Princeton Seminary

January 8, 2008

As part of Princeton Theological Seminary’s Spring Book Club Series, both Jim Wallis and Brian McLaren will be at Princeton Seminary during April of 2008. Jim Wallis will be speaking about his book, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America on April 10th from 6.30–8.30pm (register here) and Brian McLaren [...]

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Justice in the Burbs: A Review

October 22, 2007

I can’t remember when I first met Will Samson, though it may have been at one of the first Emergent Conventions. Since then, he and I have crossed paths numerous times (Princeton Seminary, Yale Divinity School, Emergent Cohorts and other conferences). He and his wife have recently co-written a book entitled Justice in the Burbs. [...]

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Signs of Emergence: A Review

October 10, 2007

I have been looking forward to reading Kester Brewin’s Signs of Emergence for a long time. The subtitle alone made me excited to see what he had to say: “A Vision for a Church that is Organic / Networked / Decentralized / Bottom-up / Communal / Flexible / Always Evolving.” When I look at my [...]

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Free Book Giveaway

October 9, 2007

Over the past couple years, publishers have started to realize the potential impact and persuasiveness of bloggers and what they review and recommend on their blogs. So, they started sending out books to bloggers to review. I certainly don’t mind the free books - and most of the time, they’re good books - but I’ve [...]

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