Creating a Missional Culture
Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World, JR Woodward (InterVarsity Press) $ 16.00 Churches that are serious about carrying forward God mission,expressed...
View ArticleWhy Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?
Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World, Brian McLaren (Jericho Books) $24.99 Brian McLaren has a gift for putting his finger on the...
View ArticleTo Change the World
To Change the World: the Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, James Davison Hunter (Oxford) $27.95 This summer of group of friends, including Hillhurst Review...
View ArticleHelp, Thanks, Wow
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, Anne Lamott (Riverhead Books) $17.95 Anne Lamott in conversation with Father Greg Boyle.(Photo by Gary Leonard, courtesy of the Library Foundation of Los...
View ArticleIncorporation: A Novel
Incorporation, Will Willimon (Cascade, 2012) $29 If you’re looking for the key to Will Willimon’s new novel, Incorporation (Cascade, 2012), you can find it here: More humiliating was his desperate need...
View ArticleTalking About God
What We Talk About When We Talk About God, Rob Bell (HarperOne, 2013) $25.99 Rob Bell is in a new place with a new book. What We Talk about When We Talk about God is his first publication since leaving...
View ArticleAn Interview with Chris Stedman
Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious, Chris Stedman (Beacon Press, 2012) $22.95 Chris Stedman is gay. If that proves an uncomfortable introduction, the rest of Faitheist:...
View ArticleTorn and Not Mended
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate, Justin Lee. (Jericho Books, 2012) $21.99 It all started with the kid in high school who called me “God Boy.” Justin Lee, co-founder,...
View ArticleDoes Jesus Really Love Me? [Video]
Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America, Jeff Chu (Harper, 2013) $26.99 Jeff Chu’s book, Does Jesus Really Love Me? charts a new course in the emerging...
View ArticleJewish Megatrends
Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Future, Ed. Sidney Schwartz (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013) $24.99 In discussing the future of religion, many seek to address temporary concerns...
View ArticleHistory of the World Christian Movement, 1454-1800
History of the World Christian Movement, Volume II: Modern Christianity from 1454-1800, Dale T. Irvin and Scott W. Sunquist (Orbis Books, 2012) $40.00 Dale T. Irvin and Scott W. Sunquist changed the...
View ArticleSeeing God in Surprising Places
When “Spiritual but Not Religious” is Not Enough: Seeing God in Surprising Places, Even the Church, Lillian Daniel (Jericho Books, 2013) $19.99 If nothing else, Lillian Daniel has a breadth of...
View ArticleA Call to Faithful Creativity
Manifest: Our Call to Faithful Creativity, ed. Nathan Brown & Joanna Darby (Signs Publishing, 2013) AU$ 24.95 As cultural and economic shifts continue to take place, more people are calling...
View ArticleNailed to the Center of the Universe
Affliction, says Jewish-Christian mystic, Simone Weil, is like a nail being driven into a piece of wood: it brings the one whose orientation is to love, into the very presence of God. Extreme...
View ArticleThriving in the Connection Economy
The Icarus Deception, Seth Godin (Portfolio, 2012) $24.95 Are you an artist? In today’s connection economy you better be. Seth Godin offers an ultimatum to the readers of his self-proclaimed most...
View ArticlePostmodern Apologetics?
Hillhurst Review Editor-in-Chief, Ryan Bell, has joined a group of bloggers at The Spectrum Blog to reflect, chapter-by-chapter, through Christina M. Gschwandtner’s book Postmodern Apologetics?...
View ArticleA Little Borrow, a Little New, What’s Scriptural to You?
A New New Testament, Ed. Hal Taussig (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) $32.00 One of the primary questions you will need to ask yourself before picking up A New New Testament is whether you are...
View ArticleSex, Shame and Healing: A Memoir of a Sex Surrogate
An Intimate Life: Sex, Love, and My Journey as a Surrogate Partner, Cheryl T. Cohen Green with Lorna Garano (Soft Skull Press, 2012) $15.95 Following Helen Hunt’s portrayal of her in last year’s The...
View ArticleThe Poetry Drone: Prophecy for Our Time
The Poetry Drone (known lovingly as the “Po Dro”) is a creation of LA-based poet, David Shook. In a modern-day effort to “beat swords into plowshares” Shook is seeking to arm a drone with—not bombs—but...
View ArticleLiterary But Not Literal: Spong on the Gospel of John
The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic, John Shelby Spong (HarperOne 2013) $26.99 John Shelby Spong is something of a legend within the contemporary Christian thought leadership. Through a...
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