THE TOMMY NIELSEN AMERICAN CONFEDERATES BIBLE
Written by scholars and historians of the deep south who are saving their confederate money in the hopes that “the South shall rise again!” You will get chills as the glory days of slavery are relived. The “Articles of the Confederate States” are included and explained. Breath-taking, eye-witness [...]
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I wrote an endorsement of the RED letters: the sayings and teachings of JESUS, edited by Tim Beals. Tim is my friend who helped me get my second book Out of Print: A Novel published.
I wrote for the RED letters: “In reading the RED letters I was struck again by the brevity, wit, creativity, and courage of [...]
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Posted in Culture, Reviews, Theology, Uncategorized on Dec 5th, 2008
Some stories haunt you and Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes is a story about a horrific school shooting in Sterling, New Hampshire. Her story keeps seeping through my mind, unsettling, needling me.
Do you remember Achan who “stole the bacon” in the battle of Jericho? Achan got found out in Joshua 7 after the shocking defeat at Ai. Achan had [...]
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Posted in Culture, Emergent Conversation, Jesus, Reviews on Nov 20th, 2008
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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