Category: book
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which is most important: the bible or jesus?
I’m one chapter shy of finishing the latest book by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church, for an upcoming Leadership Journal review. These two Aussies are some of the most prolific writers and thinkers these days about all things missional. (See, for example, Hirsch’s recent article in LJ,…
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flickering pixels
There probably aren’t a lot of folks who begin their careers creating ads for Porsche before pastoring a Mennonite church. This is Shane Hipps’ story in a nutshell and it allows the author of Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith a perspective on the affects of technologies many of us are unaware of. In…
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advice please: reading and parenthood
I need your advice. As has been mentioned, one of the things I’m most looking forward to about 2009 is adopting our first child. Just last night I spent some time on our adoption profile (a collection of photos and text about ourselves) for birth mothers to look at. We were supposed to meet today…
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the divine commodity
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity gives language to the sinking feeling many ministry folks have as we realize how enmeshed our churches have become with consumer culture. Skye Jethani, a friend and managing editor of Leadership Journal, provides the right balance of cultural analysis, clear insight, and gentle direction to show…
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christian imagination: a bibliography
Thanks to those of you who left comments on my recent post, a book i’d like to read: christian imagination. Susan recommended three different books on this subject: Orthodoxy, Mind of the Maker, and My Name is Asher Lev. Of these I’ve only read Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, though I’ve read two other novels by…
David W. Swanson 