Review- Keeping the Feast: Metaphors for the Meal
Milton Brasher-Cunningham’s book Keeping the Feast: Metaphors for the Meal is a feast packed into a small book. It is a book to savor, and to return to again and again. A mixture of prose, poems, and...
View ArticleReview of Mending Broken: A Personal Journey Through Trauma and Recovery
In Mending Broken: A Personal Journey Through Trauma and Recover Teresa B. Pasquale presents her personal history of trauma and recovery in a compelling and at moments moving way. I read the book as...
View ArticleReview of the Enoch Factor: The sacred art of knowing God
Steve McSwain, wants to let us in on an amazing secret: you can know God. The problem is it shouldn’t be much of a secret and many who think they know how (including the author at one point in his...
View ArticleReview of Juxtaposed : A Memoir that Offers Hope
Daisy Rain Martin’s memoir Juxtaposed: Finding Sanctuary on the Outside, is brilliant, funny, hopeful, and heartbreaking. Daisy Martin’s story is one of triumph over horrible abuse as a child....
View ArticleCompelling Atheists in a Flat World of Faith: Cross Examined, A Review
Cross Examined: An unconventional spiritual journey by Bob Seidensticker is a novel about a young man in his late 20’s who is a new convert to Christianity who has been taken under the wing of a pastor...
View ArticleTheology From Exile – Volume II – The Year of Matthew : A Review
Theology From Exile is a commentary series on the Revised Common Lectionary by Sea Raven. Each Volume takes one year in the three year lectionary cycle. Volume I goes through year C in the three year...
View ArticleA Nice Indian Boy: A Rich and Savory Play
Rasaka Theatre’s current production is the Midwest premier of Madhuri Shekar’s A Nice Indian Boy, Running through March 8 at Victory Gardens.. Full disclosure my wife Kate Setzer Kamphausen is the...
View ArticleSacramental Politics: A Review
In Sacramental Politics: Religious worship as political action, Brian Kaylor explores the various ways religion and politics commingle, focusing on acts of worship and political activism. The book...
View ArticleThe Intlectual Life of Bonhoeffer: A review of Strange Glory
A Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh brings to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s biography some previously unknown tidbits, and a well-documented and academic account of Dietrich...
View ArticleReview of Tom Sine’s Live Like You Give a Damn!
Tom Sine’s Live Like You Give a Damn!: Join the Change Making Celebration is an introduction to social entrepreneurship and community empowerment for the moribund congregation unaware of these things....
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