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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THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
I try to read this novella at least once a summer. I just finished it again this morning. Unbelievable. The story gets better each time I read it. This time I was amazed at Ernest Hemingway’s sharp simplicity of description and the riveting explorations of the thoughts and dispositions of Santiago, the old [...]
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Posted in Reviews on Jul 9th, 2008
I am a fan of Annie Dillard. I read her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek like some people eat dessert, thoroughly enjoying myself. And I laughed my way through her An American Childhood, brooded with her in Teaching a Stone to Talk, and learned from her in The Writing Life. So when her latest book, The Maytrees: A [...]
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You’ve probably read the “why did the chicken cross the road” jokes as written by famous people.
Buddha:
If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Bob Dylan:
How many roads must one chicken cross?
Mark Twain:
The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
And…
Ernest Hemingway:
In the rain. To die.
Scot McKnight at Jesus Creed is posting about “The [...]
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