Rarely does a book captivate my attention and my desire to experiment, try something new. Mark Scandrette’s book Practicing the Way of Jesus is an interesting mix of theology, stories, examples, advice, resources. Though most of all it is an invitation. He has crafted it in such a beautiful way to draw you into reimagining great […]

Beauty. Art. Church. All things I have been thinking about for some years. For a long time I thought about them in very separate terms, then slowly the questions began to overlap and I started allowing them to dialogue with each other. Listening to questions about art and applying them to church or worries about […]

Not very often am I as shaken as I was after reviewing the 5 week study Economy of Love created by Relational Tithe & Shane Claiborne. It explores the deep question of what it means to be a Christian in a land of plenty, in a land of wealth, greed, & imperial capitalism gone amuck. […]

{full disclosure: To comply with federal regulations, I want to state that I received this book in return for my review. I did not receive any other compensation for this review.} Being a Protestant, especially with much Southern Baptist history, I haven’t learned much about the Saints of church history. I tried to read a […]

{full disclosure: To comply with federal regulations, I want to state that I received this book in return for my review. I did not receive any other compensation for this review.} Don Miller brings back his most theological work in a re-release/update. Searching For God Knows What was originally Don Miller’s followup to Blue Like […]

The Naked Gospel by Andrew Farley, a reaction to Christian-legalism. The author grew up in an environment where he would feel compelled to do. He describes getting out of bed at night, to ‘witness’ at the gas station, so he check the box and go back to sleep. It is from that hyper-works based system […]

{full disclosure: To comply with federal regulations, I want to state that I received this book in return for my review. I did not receive any other compensation for this review.} I just recently finished reading this hefty read. Coming in over 540 pages long, this book has definite quantitative weight, though the life of […]

I just finished a biography of John Wesley by Roy Hattersley. I’ve had the desire to delve into the biographers of past Christians of importance, trying to understand what a Christian life has meant to the men {and women} through the ages who have shaped our faith today in such great ways. This is the […]

{full disclosure: To comply with federal regulations, I want to state that I received this book in return for my review. I did not receive any other compensation for this review.} So the week leading up to Christmas, I received Chris Seay’s recent book The Gospel According to Lost; it sat in my stack of […]

{full disclosure: To comply with federal regulations, I want to state that I received this book in return for my review. I did not receive any other compensation for this review.} Men live in communities; men have always lived their lives together. Throughout the ages you can look at those collections of people called cities […]