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The End of Hunger: There is good news
I have reviewed The End of Hunger previously, but a brief review won’t capture the flood of thoughts hitting me. The issue of hunger, poverty, or climate change relies on a main factor for motivation and action: panic. The fuel of any issue is the old news adage: “If it bleeds it leads.” There has to be a sense of…
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Book Review: The End of Hunger
This book creates a big problem for me. There is so much to work through and think through it’s impossible to put it in a book review. This is a book for thought, for contemplation, for discussion, and then for action. The book is edited by Jenney Eaton Dyer and Cathleen Falsani, but the feature is the articles by so…
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Book Review — Basic Christianity
InterVarsity Press is re-issuing some classics from their catalogue. Basic Christianity by John Stott is a standard. It is every bit a classic in the explanation of Christianity as Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Having read Stott’s book years ago, I took the opportunity to read it again.
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Let’s talk about sex
Authentic Human Sexuality, 3rd Edition, by Judith K. Balswick and Jack O. Balswick “Sex pervades our culture, going far beyond the confines of the bedroom into the workplace, the church, and the media. Yet despite all the attention and even obsession devoted to sex, human sexuality remains confusing and even foreboding. What, after all, is authentic human sexuality?”
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Book Review: I See You by Terence Lester
“Privilege has a way of blinding us to the realities faced by those society has made invisible, and in true incarnational fashion, Terence takes us with him on a journey to uncover the true experiences of our most vulnerable neighbors.” (Chad Wright-Pittman)
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Confronting our misconceptions about “the poor”
We may have heard these generalizations about the poor, or held them ourselves. (Or, still hold them.) — They are lazy and uneducated.— They chose to be poor. They could pick themselves up by their bootstraps and get out of it if they really wanted. — The poor are the government’s responsibility. — It’s their own fault they are poor.
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Book Review: “Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times”
I received a copy of Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong-Chan Rah from IVP. It is a part of a new series called “Resonate” that looks to engage books of the Bible through a current theological lens and the study of culture. Rah’s book focuses on the Book of Lamentations. It’s not a book I’ve readily studied…
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