Bookshelf Anomalies #1 Bookshelf Anomalies #2 In the first two installments of Bookshelf Anomalies I highlighted pairs of books that were ideologically at odds with one another. In this edition, it’s not the actual content of the books that makes things interesting. It’s just the way the titles go together. The two books are: Knowing […]
Bookshelf Anomalies #2: Old Testament Exegesis & Struggling with Scripture
Bookshelf Anomalies #1 These two books fall fairly neatly into conservative and liberal/progressive categories. Old Testament Exegesis (by Douglas Stuart of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is a handbook of sorts for students and pastors, providing a systematic way for studying and exegeting a passage of scripture. Struggling with Scripture is a different kind of book, a […]
Bookshelf Anomalies #1: The Culture-Wise Family & Velvet Elvis
I’m a little OCD in my book organization. All of my library is on LibraryThing, including each book’s Library of Congress catalog number. So, I arrange my books in order of their Library of Congress number. There might be a few mistakes, but regardless, I put my books on the shelf just like LibraryThing sorts […]
Books, Books, Books…
Finished a few books in the past week or so: Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends, by Kevin Vanhoozer, ed. This is a great book on how to make theological sense of culture. Vanhoozer writes the introductory essay that outlines his method for such interpretation, and is worth buying the book. […]
Now Reading: The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics by Stanley Hauerwas
I also started another book this week: The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics. I’ve had the book for a while and have wanted to read something by Hauerwas, who intrigues me even though I’ve never read anything of his. I got introduced to him via quotes I read on blogs and these videos […]
Now Reading: Awakening Youth Discipleship: Christian Resistance in a Consumer Culture by Brian J. Mahan, Michael Warren, and David F. White
I started reading a new book Friday that I’m really excited about. I read Practicing Discernment With Youth: A Transformative Youth Ministry Approach by David F. White last year and really enjoyed about 2/3 of the book. I liked where White was coming from in the book, but thought that he didn’t exactly take his […]
Book Review: All the Ideas Living in My Head: One Guy’s Musings About Truth by Don Everts
As someone who has been in ministry on college campuses since 1994 through InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Don Everts is no stranger to ideas. College campuses are breeding grounds for dialogue, debate, idea sharing, and general philosophizing. It wasn’t until having an email conversation about the nature of the authority of scripture that Everts really […]
Brian McLaren has Another Book Out?
I must have really been living under a rock for the past few months. I didn’t even know he was working on a book, and I read on another blog that he just released another book. The man is a machine. I wonder what controversy he’ll stir up this time.
Now Reading: Everyday Theology by Kevin Vanhoozer (ed.)
As I said yesterday, I hoped to pick up a good book in the evening, and I did. I’ve been looking forward to reading Everyday Theology since it first came out. I’ve been a fan of Vanhoozer ever since I was introduced to him in Dr. Castleman’s class. I expect this to be a somewhat […]
Best Youth Ministry Books: Postmodern Youth Ministry, Chapter 2
Chapter two in PMYM is titled, “A missional agenda”, which is highly necessary given the current reality of living in a post-Christian world. Essentially, Tony argues for a kind of youth ministry that is missional at its core: As we youth workers begin to see ourselves as misisonaries, we can reconfigure our job descriptions so […]