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Following King Jesus
I read Following King Jesus: How to Know, Read, Live, and Show the Gospel by Scot McKnight and Becky Castle Miller. The title grabbed my attention, but I bought this book without clearly reading the details on the cover. This is a workbook for participating or leading a Bible study summarizing 4 of Dr. McKnight’s
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Modern Monasticism
I listened to the book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times by Elizabeth Oldfield using my library’s Hoopla app. I would imagine that the author and I would have many differences. But, I imagine that she would be very welcoming to discuss those differences in a friendly chat over tea. She challenges
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Idols
I read Tim Alberta’s book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism using the Libby app from my public library. It is a depressing analysis of how idolatry infiltrated the American Evangelical church. Tim has researched and interviewed popular church leaders who have succumbed to the same power
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Whatever Happened to Christian Humility?
In his letter to the Philippians, Paul wrote, Imitating Christ’s Humility Humility has been an ancient virtue in Christianity. Today, this virtue seems to have been lost. Humility is seen as being weak. Ministry leaders model a lack of this virtue. I recently listened to on Hoopla, through my my library, the book, Learning Humility:
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Culture Care
I listened to Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life by Makoto Fujimura through Hoopla from my library. This book challenged my thinking because art is not my context. The phrase I have told Kristin many times is “form follows function.” This book challenges that saying head-on. I think others who love art
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Slavery in Early American Evangelicalism
From the Holy Post book club, I was able to read the book, Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield by Sean McGever. Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley and George Whitefield were significant leaders in the colonial evangelical revival movement before the American Revolutionary War. This book reviews how each of them
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Post-Evangelicalism
just finished listening to the After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity by Dr. David P. Gushee from my Hoopla application. Here is an AI Generative summary from Google. After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity by David P. Gushee is a book that analyzes American evangelicalism and offers a guide for those
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Anti-intellectual Evangelicalism
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark Noll was published in 1995 when I graduated from seminary. Being exhausted from extensive reading, I missed its publication. Over the years, I have had it on my reading list, but it never rose to the top as new books vied for my attention. Recently, I borrowed
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Prophecy
I have read all of the Lost World books by John Walton. Dr. Walton studies the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East culture. His books make serious biblical scholarship accessible. I highly recommend the Lost World books. In The Lost World of the Prophets: Old Testament Prophecy and Apocalyptic Literature in Ancient Context, John
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What is the Gospel?
Courtesy our library’s Hoopla app, I listened to Gospel Allegiance by Matthew W. Bates. The book sheds light on how many Gospel presentations are constructed by extracting verses out of context, resulting in a message that diverges from the clear Gospel presentations made by biblical figures like Peter, Stephen, and Paul. Bates challenges transaction-based Gospel