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One of our favorite new books: Year of Plenty by Craig Goodwin

Year of Plenty (book review)

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 | 1 Response

Jesus Died For This? by Becky Garrison is a prophetic gut-punch to our false spirituality

Jesus Died For This? (Book Review)

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 | Leave a response

Crashing Idols: The Vocation of Will Campbell... (book review)

Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell…(book review)

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 | Leave a response

Pure Scum book review

Pure Scum (Book Review)

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 | Leave a response

Farming As A Spiritual Discipline by Ragan Sutterfield (a must read)

Farming As A Spiritual Discipline [Book Review]

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 | 4 Responses

Michael Pollan's 'Food Rules: An Eater's Manual'

Michael Pollan’s Food Rules [Book Review and Video]

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 | 2 Responses

John Stott's 51st and final book is a call to deeper discipleship

John Stott’s The Radical Disciple

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 | Leave a response

Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of Our Daily Choices

Everyday Justice [Book Review]

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 | Leave a response

Growing Deeper In Our Church Communities (free e-book)

Growing Deeper In Our Church Communities [Book Review]

By Jason Fowler on 02/12/2010

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.

Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged book review, Chris Smith, Church Life, Community and Ecclesia, individualism, Intentional Christian Community, isolation, Jesus, missional living, Modern culture, radical discipleship, shalom, The Englewood Review of Books, Whole-life Christian faith, worldviews | 2 Responses

Do we have a Biblical view of creation? (montage by J Fowler)

Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship

By Meg Dunn on 02/12/2010

Caring for the environment is a moral issue. How we interact with the world around us, not just with other people but with the stuff of the earth, is not a matter of right, but of responsibility…

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