Tag: Book Review
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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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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…
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The Universe Bends Toward Justice
I recently reviewed The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic by Obery M. Hendricks for The Englewood Review of Books. A couple miles from my home on Chicago’s South Side is the burned out shell of Pilgrim Baptist Church. As impressive as its building was before…
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5 Favorite Books in 2011
I read a few books in 2011 and, as in past years (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), I have somewhat haphazardly chosen five favorites. How about you? What books most impacted how you think and live this year? ——————– The Pastor, Eugene Peterson. In recent years Eugene Peterson has become, entirely through his many books, one…
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The King Jesus Gospel
Scot McKnight’s latest book, The King Jesus Gospel, has already been sufficiently reviewed and debated in print and online. Of interest to many (and consternation to some) is the definition at the center of the book: “The gospel, I am arguing, is declaring the Story of Israel as resolved in the Story of Jesus.” The…
David W. Swanson 