Articles in Book Review
Reviewed by Neal Presa
Charlie Self, Flourishing Churches and Communities: A Pentecostal Primer on Faith, Work, and Economics for Spirit-Empowered Discipleship (Grand Rapids, MI: Christian’s Library Press, 2013).
Reviewed by Keith A. Russell
Lectionary based, the new biblical commentary series released by Fortress is an interesting and helpful resource for preachers in that it seeks to bring together both topical/theme inquiry and exegetical treatment of biblical texts.
Reviewed by Neal D. Presa
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).
In his battle with a bone disease that renders him in agonizing pain and preparing for a bone marrow transplant, Wiman recounted his wrestling and grappling with the God whom he knows and pondering the future of his wife and child.
Reviewed by Neal D. Presa
According to author Cox, preaching requires sermon preparation and delivery that will enable the brain to receive the intended message. He lists several techniques for engaging the neural pathways in our brains to do just that.
Reviewed by Keith Russell
The Practice of Prophetic Preaching: Preaching An Emancipating Word
by Walter Brueggemann (Fortress Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Robert W. Gunn
The Breath of God by Jeffrey Small (San Francisco: West Hills Press, 2011).
Reviewed by Neal Presa
Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace.
Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith.
Reviewed by Keith Russell
A book review of Jesus, Liberation, and The Biblical Jubilee: Images For Ethics and Christology by Sharon H. Ringe
Reviewed by Marian Ronan
Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants .By Alyshia Gálvez. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Paper. 237 pp. $23.
Reviewed by Doug Stivison
This book is a deeply-challenging exploration of the theology and the praxis necessary for “an ecological conversion.” The author calls for an understanding of the connection between ecological awareness and all facets of our Christian faith as he invites readers to think through what it means to form “an authentic ecological theology for the twenty-first century.”
Reviewed by Frederick J. Streets
The book offers useful insights to people of faith, not only at critical turning points in their lives, but wherever they may be on life’s journey.
Reviewed by Douglas Stivison
This is an unusual book that deserves to be noticed. Once we picked up the slim paperback we could not put it down. It is genuinely thought provoking. It is essentially a fable or a parable. It combines elements of a Victorian Sunday School storybook with its stark moral lessons and a well-written episode of The West Wing.
