The title of the book is “Does This Dress Make Me Look Fat?” and it claims to be “A Man’s Guide to the Loaded Questions Women Ask.” It is written by therapists and friends, David Thomas and Stephen James. In this guidebook to relationships, they hope to help men decipher and understand what women “really [...]
The first Barbara Brown Taylor book I read was The Preaching Life which I instantly fell in love with. Taylor’s way of telling stories and making the text come alive is very engaging. Taylor serves as an Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality here at Columbia, so I was looking forward to hearing her preach while [...]
I just finished my copy of “An Emergent Manifesto of Hope” and I really enjoyed giving it a read through. There have been some reviews of it already - just read Jonny Baker’s this morning and thought it was a pretty fair review. One of his critiques was just that it was spread pretty thin. [...]
Part 1: Mark Driscoll
Part 2: John Burke
Part 3: Dan Kimball
Part 4: Doug Pagitt
Part 5: Karen Ward
I’m glad I had the chance to read this book, and I continue to look forward to more Emergent books that come out using the collaborative method of writing. I will be blogging through some chapters of An Emergent Manifesto [...]
Part 1: Mark Driscoll
Part 2: John Burke
Part 3: Dan Kimball
Part 4: Doug Pagitt
Part 5: Karen Ward
Karen Ward: Communal Theology
Karen’s chapter was fun to read because one can clearly see how important the role of community is to COTA (Church of the Apostles). In her chapter, and in the life of her church, she draws heavily [...]
Part 1: Mark Driscoll
Part 2: John Burke
Part 3: Dan Kimball
Part 4: Doug Pagitt
Doug Pagitt: Embodied Theology
Doug’s chapter was probably one of the strongest in the book I thought. I loved reading Driscoll’s critique of Doug’s chapter: “I find Doug’s chapter the most difficult to respond to…we were assigned to articulate our views on the Trinity, [...]
Part 1: Mark Driscoll
Part 2: John Burke
Part 3: Dan Kimball
Dan Kimball: Missional Theology
I like Dan Kimball. And it’s not just because he grew up in Jersey, or because he’s a faithful pomomusings reader (although those are both great reasons for why I should like him). I like Dan Kimball because he loves people. He just [...]
Part 1: Mark Driscoll
Part 2: John Burke
John Burke: Incarnational Theology
John Burke is pastor of Gateway Church, and I appreciate the ministry that seems to be happening at Gateway. I’ve never met John, and he is theologically closer to Driscoll than myself, but he doesn’t have the same negative vibe that Driscoll had in his chapter.
Burke’s [...]
Part 1: Mark Driscoll
Mark Driscoll: Biblicist Theology
I just don’t get this guy. I really wonder why Zondervan asked Driscoll to be a part of this book, and I have to wonder why Driscoll said yes. Mark apparently thinks that the number of Biblical citations is directly proportional to how faithful his chapter actually is to [...]
Thanks to my friends at Zondervan, I was able to read Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches and will be reflecting on it throughout the rest of this week. Tallskinnykiwi has a great review of it here, in case you’re interested.
Overall, I thought the book was okay. To be honest, I feel like I’ve [...]
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