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By Jason Fowler on 06/24/2011
Year of Plenty is an insightful, profound yet humorous narrative that provides a refreshing perspective on the intersection between Christian faith and issues of economy, environment, community, consumption, justice and sustainability…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged american dream, Anti-Consumerism, book review, Christan faith and sustainability, Christian discipleship, christian faith, Christian faith and gardening, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, economy, environmentalism, farmers market, Gardening, global, global justice, GOD, Intentional Living, Jesus, justice, justice economy, local, localism, missional, sabbath economics, suburbs, Sustainability, Sustainable Living |
By Jason Fowler on 04/19/2011
This book is wonderfully offensive…There is a bit of a gut-punch in their for all of us. And if we’re willing to leave our pseudo-piety behind we will discover that there is indeed a promised land for those of us who are willing to laugh at ourselves and strike out on a soul-searching journey towards the risen Jesus…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged book review, books, christian faith, Christianity, church culture, culture, GOD, humor, Jesus, religion, resurrection |
By Chris Enstad on 01/17/2011
Born in 1924, in southern Mississippi, Campbell came of age in one of the most racially divided parts of the most racially divided state in the Union…Campbell is an ordained Southern Baptist minister but, like most iconoclasts and prophets, no institution could find a good use for him, nor could he for them…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Heroes and Prophets, Justice, Society and Culture | Tagged book review, christian faith, culture, idols, racial reconciliation, Will Campbell |
By Jason Fowler on 12/09/2010
Mike Sares and his church, Scum of the Earth, offer us a message of hope that maybe we don’t have to live in a spiritually toxic churchianity- maybe there is something true and real to following Jesus beyond the shiny plastic shellac of our Sunday smiles and proper prayers…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged book review, Christian books, church, discipleship, Intervarsity Press, Jesus, Mike Sares, re-thinking church, religion, Scum of the Earth |
By Jason Fowler on 08/02/2010
Despite what the title may infer, it is not just for farmers- it is for all of us who long for the coming shalom of GOD’s New Earth. He begins by inviting city dwellers to get their hands in God’s dirt…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Food & Agriculture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, book, book review, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church gardens, Creation Care, environment, environment and faith, faith-based community garden movement, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, ragan sutterfield, Sustainable Agriculture, the agrarian mind, Wendell Berry |
By Pam Fowler on 07/26/2010
When my husband first showed me ‘Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual’ by Michael Pollan, we were both struck by how small it was, but I was hooked from the first glance. ‘Food Rules’ is a quick and very enjoyable read filled with witty, quirky sayings that are fun to read yet are full of wisdom…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, body as temple, book, book review, christian stewardship, diet, food, food and nutrition, Food Inc, Food Rules, holistic faith, industry, michael pollan, society |
By Jason Fowler on 05/26/2010
In The Radical Disciple, John Stott comes across not as one who is criticizing the Church for it’s failures, but as an aging apostolic father in the faith who is gathering his children around to humbly impart his blessing and prophetic legacy to a new generation…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged book review, evangelical, incarnational faith, Intervarsity Press, IVP, John Stott, Lausanne, radical Christian faith, The Radical Disciple, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Jason Fowler on 05/14/2010
“Acting justly everyday means developing awareness about the problems in the world; it means changing how we shop, how we dress and how we drive; it means starting to see our each and every action as an ethical choice…”
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Justice | Tagged affluence, book review, christian ethics, christian faith, conscious consumerism, Everyday Justice, fair trade, globalization, Intervarsity Press, IVP, julie clawson, Justice |
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