Book Review: "Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus"
The outline for Greil Marcus’s approach to analyzing Bob Dylan in his latest book, the aptly titled Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, can be found in two pieces. The first…
The Complicated Fall of Post-Charismatic Evangelicalism: A Review of Quitting Church by Julia Duin
Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing and Waht to Do About it by Julia Duin 180 pp. Baker Academic, $12.99 What makes books by journalists so fun is that,…
The Rhetoric of Repentance: A Review of Telling God's Story
Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation by John W. Wright 164 pp. $19.00 IVP Academic I actually became aware of this book while reading Stan Hauerwas’s Working with…
Will the Real Constantine Please Stand Up?: A Review of On the Verge for SpeakEasy Bloggers
On the Verge: A Journey into the Apostolic Future of the Church by Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson 366 pp. $19.99 Zondervan Perhaps, at their roots, all church planters have…
Reading with Friends: A Review of Stanley Hauerwas's Working with Words
Working with Words: On Learning to Speak Christian by Stanley Hauerwas 295 pp. $37.00 Cascade Books I often review books that publishers and book-review Internet books send my way, but…
Fear and Pity: A Review of The Nature of Love: A Theology for SpeakEasy Bloggers
The Nature of Love: A Theology By Thomas Jay Oord. 195 pp. $25.99 (hardcover) Perhaps I’m odd for thinking of Aristotle’s Poetics after I’ve read a book on Christian theology,…
Book Review: The Marketplace of Ideas
The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University By Louis Menand. 174 pp. W.W. Norton. $14.95 (paperback) I missed The Marketplace of Ideas when it was first…
Long on Diagnosis, Short on Viable Responses: A Review of Generation iY
Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future by Tim Elmore 228 pp. Poet Gardner Publishing. $16.99 Tim Elmore came to Emmanuel College in early August as our guest…
Handy for an Overview: A Review of Coffeehouse Theology for The Ooze Viral Bloggers
Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life. By Ed Cyzewski 233 pp. NavPress. $14.99. I have to admit that I enjoyed reading an optimistic book, even one whose optimism…
The Theological Datum Is your Friend: A Review of Walter Brueggemann’s An Unsettling God
An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible By Walter Brueggemann. 212 pp. Fortress Press. $22.00. I first encountered Walter Brueggemann’s project as a senior at Milligan College, but…
Book Review: About You
About You: Fully Human, Fully Alive By Dick Staub. 207 pp. Jossey-Bass. $22.95. Dick Staub is the host of what may well be the finest podcast out there on the…
A Different Way to Do Luther: A Review of Colors of God for Ooze Viral Bloggers
Colors of God: Conversations about Being the Church. By Randall Mark Peters, Dave Phillips, and Quentin Steen. 231 pp. Authentic. $15. Three years have passed now since I stopped posting…
Book Review: "Super Sad True Love Story"
Super Sad True Love Story By Gary Shteyngart 334 pp. Random House. $26. Gary Shteyngart’s third novel, the awkwardly if endearingly titled Super Sad True Love Story, is a dystopian…
Book Review: "Making Haste from Babylon"
Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World By Nick Bunker Illustrated. 489 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30.00. Two eras of American history seem to be of perpetual…
More Hopeful than a Manifesto: A Review of Mere Churchianity
Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality By Michael Spencer 229 pp. Cascade Books. $13.99 Two influences obviously shaped my experience of reading this book: for one, as…