Reclaiming Our Food (Book Review)
“Across America, the grassroots food movement seems to be arising from a common feeling that we have lost our center…This book tells the story of people who are seeking to find a new center, to create meaning and purpose in their lives, to restore harmony and balance in their relationships with the land, food and each other…”
Year of Plenty (book review)
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…
Jesus Died For This? (Book Review)
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…
Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell…(book review)
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…
Pure Scum (Book Review)
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…
Farming As A Spiritual Discipline [Book Review]
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…
Michael Pollan’s Food Rules [Book Review and Video]
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…
John Stott’s The Radical Disciple
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…
Everyday Justice [Book Review]
“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…”
Growing Deeper In Our Church Communities [Book Review]
It is a quiet but revolutionary cultural critique that calls the church to abandon Western individualism and renew our call to be the Body of Jesus- connected in proximity, together pursuing the purposes of GOD.
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