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Health for Godly Generations by Renee DeGroot

Health For Godly Generations (Book Excerpt)

By Jason Fowler on 02/05/2012

In her book Health for Godly Generations, the author Renee DeGroot has compiled a deeply thoughtful and provoking conversation…I consider this book to be a solid entry into the growing Christian conversation on health, food and the multi-faceted issues that surround this element of our lives.

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"...Community is hard only because we like to hide..."

In Your Underwear: Life In Intentional Christian Community (book excerpt)

By Jason Fowler on 08/31/2011

All communities are formed ultimately in their underwear. Until you get to that place of exposure, shock, and acceptance you are not really community. In his book Life Together, Dietrich Bonheoffer called it the shock of disillusionment…

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The Colors of Hope by Richard Dahlstrom

The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice and Love (book excerpt)

By Jason Fowler on 07/22/2011

The new book by Seattle pastor Richard Dahlstrom just recently hit the shelves. Check out this excerpt from the chapter titled ‘Art in the Garden-So Sow…’ from this new book ‘The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice and Love’…

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Henri Nouwen and the Three Monks of Tolstoy

By Dan Horwedel on 03/01/2010

The Afterward in ‘The Only Necessary Thing,’ various writings from Henri Nouwen, contains this little story about “The Three Monks of Tolstoy”: Three Russian monks lived in a faraway island…

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