Jeremy Bouma has a story to tell and he tells it well. Having grown up in a very conservative Christian environment (Hudsonville, MI) and having served in ministries where a mutant form of the Gospel was transmitted, Jeremy underwent a conversion. Through his own experience of “the dark night of the soul,” Jeremy came out [...]
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Posted in Culture, Emergent Conversation, Reviews, Theology on Oct 21st, 2008
Phyllis Tickle time.
I had the opportunity to hear Phyllis Tickle at Baker Book House on Ocotober 17 discuss her newest book The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why (Baker).
Phyllis is a delightful lady. And unusual…how many Anglicans do you know who have a strong Southern Baptist influence? She is a profound communicator [...]
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Barbara Brown Taylor is honest. She can be trusted.
I laughed at her wit, I groaned with her struggles, and I felt expectant about her and my future.
In Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, she writes, “As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they [...]
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My friend and former colleague in ministry, Mark Riddle, has written a timely and fascinating book about local church youth ministry. Inside the Mind of Youth Pastors: A Church Leaders Guide to Staffing and Leading Youth Pastors (Zondervan/Youth Specialties) is a bluntly honest and extremely helpful guide into the often turbulent waters of student ministry.
The [...]
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Julie and I had the pleasure one morning to meet for breakfast with Karen Spears Zacharias. She was in Grand Rapids, MI, visiting Zondervan to create an audio edition of her book Where’s Your Jesus Now? Examining How Fear Erodes Faith.
Julie and I became “blog friends” with Karen, finding her humor and honesty, her skill (as a [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Jesus, Reviews on Aug 4th, 2008
Doug Pagitt, Mark Scandrette, Tony Jones
Tony Jones as Dr. A. B. Hawthorne, the professor, singing “I’ll Fly Away” on the sidewalk of the church.
In a combination of humorous 1908 revivalist flare with current, compelling stories of the life-changing power of the big Gospel of the kingdom of God, Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt and Mark Scandrette, [...]
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