Category: book reviews
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A Faith Not Worth Fighting For
In recent days we’ve learned about President Obama’s role in deciding which terrorist suspects are selected for the “kill list.” Inclusion on this list all but guarantees the subject will be the target of a supposedly secret and increasingly common drone strike. While the story seems dramatic from every angle, from the president’s intimate involvement…
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The New Jim Crow, Chapter 5
Richard Johnson and I are blogging our way through The New Jim Crow. We’re rotating between chapters, posting reflections and the questions this important book is raising for us. Check out our posts on chapters one, two, three, and four. This is my final contribution; Richard will wrap things up with his thoughts on chapter…
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The New Jim Crow, Chapter 3
Richard Johnson and I are blogging our way through The New Jim Crow. We’re rotating between chapters, posting reflections and the questions this important book is raising for us. Check out our posts on chapters one and two. __________________________________ So far we’ve seen how Michelle Alexander examines America’s historic racial caste system and the way…
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The New Jim Crow, Chapter 1
Richard Johnson and I are blogging our way through The New Jim Crow during the next few weeks. We’ll rotate between chapters, posting reflections and the questions this important book is raising for us. We hope these series of blog posts will encourage you to pick up the book and begin grappling with unsettling and …
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Are You Waiting for “The One”?
Last summer I officiated six different weddings for six very different couples and, if I’d known of it at the time, Are You Waiting for “The One”? is a book I would have recommended to each of them. Unlike so many Christian books about marriage, Margaret and Dwight Peterson have written an immensely down to…
David W. Swanson 