Category: book reviews
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One.Life
It’s unlikely that you are the intended reader of Scot McKnight’s latest book, One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read it. Who is the book for? While he never says it, the presence of the hundreds of undergraduate students- Christian and not- he has taught over the years lurk in…
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The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor
This book surprised me. The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor sat on my shelf for a few months before I finally picked it up early this year. I’ll explain the two reasons I was (pleasantly) surprised, but first a word about the author. Mark Labberton served as the pastor of First Presbyterian Church of…
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5 books that changed me in 2010
Like past years’ lists (2007, 2008, 2009), I’ll keep this short and sweet with no attempt to rank my short list. Of the books I read in 2010, these are the five I’d most quickly recommend. ——————– The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today Here’s one of…
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Multicultural Ministry Handbook
One of the signs that the multi-ethnic church movement is picking up steam is the steady stream of books being published that either directly or indirectly raise the visibility of these churches. Increasingly these books are addressing not only the theological rationale for multi-ethnic (or, for some, multicultural) churches but are also looking at best…
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Practice Resurrection
Practice Resurrection is the fifth and final installment of what Eugene Peterson calls his “conversations” in spiritual theology. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed each of the books in this series; it wouldn’t be strange to immediately revisit these books from the beginning. In this book Peterson takes a somewhat different approach from the previous four volumes. Rather…
David W. Swanson 