A. W. Tozer’s The Pursuit of God is a bona fide Christian classic. This holiness title can be found shelved in the libraries of God chasers the globe over. It is a must read for the spiritually hungry and thirsty. It is a must read for those pursuing the holy life. If you long to chase and find God, then this book will aid you as you continue the journey.
The following are a few of the most resonate excerpts offered by Tozer in The Pursuit of God. Read More
I recently snagged a copy of DeYoung and Kluck’s Why We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be. I’ll be slowly reading it and offering chapter by chapter commentary. It looks like a good read.
Rising from the Ashes: Rethinking Church
Rising from the Ashes is a book (paperback) written by Becky Garrison
This book would make a great library addition for those who are thinking hard about church and change, especially if you are engaging it from a mainline perspective. The book includes more than a few priceless nuggets of wisdom (see N.T. Wright, for example), but it also includes some of what could be easily called fool’s gold too. Not everything tagged with the words “Emerging” or “Emergent” is helpful as far as long-term solutions for ecclesial health, communal evolution, and practical change are concerned. Some of the content is, in fact, just reactionary and silly. Again, the reader must decide and discern the difference between the two. This is a good book, in spite of its need for sensible discernment. I recommend it to anyone involved in church thinking and/or leadership.
My rating: stars
The End of Religion: Encountering the Subversive Spirituality of Jesus is a book written by Bruxy Cavey
The End of Religion is a great book. It’s fantastic! It’s challenging but dedicatedly Biblical. Put this one on your shelf and read it through a few times!
My rating: stars
Life After Church: God’s Call to Disillusioned Christians is a book written by Brian Sanders.
We don’t need one more book screaming about all that is wrong with the church. We all already know that much. Those folk need to find some new material, and soon. Until they do figure out how to maturely assess contemporary ecclesiology and reflect this newfound maturity in their writing, check out Brian Sanders’ Life after Church. It offers readers a mature summarization of current trends - good and bad - in ecclesiology and challenges readers to decide for themselves if they should stay or leave by asking themselves which action would be better for the kingdom of God. This is a great little book.
My rating: stars
It took a mere thirteen pages to bump into an interesting factoid in Tony Jones’ new book The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. The following excerpt is unarguably true and seriously sad: Read More
I have no less than eight books sitting on my desk waiting to be reviewed. These books have been sent to me by publishers and/or web marketers specifically for review on Tribe. So, expect a flurry of reviews as I work hard to read and review each of these works over the next two weeks or so. Expect serious reviews for the following titles: Life After Church, by Sanders; Consuming Jesus, by Metzger; Take This Bread, by Miles; The End of Religion, by Cavey; Rising from the Ashes, by Garrison; Surprised by Hope, by N.T. Wright; Thank God for Evolution, by Dowd; Speaking of Faith, by Tippett. Stay tuned!
I was recently sent a great little paperback titled Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters - and How to Talk About It, by author and NPR talk show host Krista Tippett. I will be reviewing the book in its entirety as soon as I am finished reading it. I’m halfway through it at this point. It is a refreshingly personal, religiously smart, and spiritually enlightening read. I’m spending a bit of extra time reading it, because it is that good. So, while I complete my read, and work on a proper review, I’ll leave you with a really great excerpt in the meanwhile.
Watch for the review and an interview with the author later this week! Read More
The Books of the Bible project not only offers readers an alternative to the overtly-complex, cluttered, and supplementary-heavy Bibles peddled in any local Christian bookstore USA, but also challenges us all to take Biblical literacy seriously. It is all about immersion in the story. TBoTB actually encourages readers to aim their focus and devotion towards the larger story being transmitted by the books, rather than a random chunk of three or four mere verses. So, readers, because of TBoTB’s presentation, are naturally guided towards immersion, and entire books are engaged in a way that celebrates the story of Scripture.
The Books of the Bible (TBoTB), an International Bible Society literary project and Today’s New International Version presentation, is a refreshing expression of God’s Word. In a world full of Bibles, it’s difficult to understand why one would need a “refreshing” presentation or “new” expression of God’s Word, but it is nonetheless the case. No! We have no shortage of Bibles in America! We have all sorts of Bibles! We have too many Bibles! There are Bibles for “Elementary School Children,” “Teens,” “Teens with Special Issues,” “Adults,” “Adults Parenting Teens,” “Adults Parenting Teens with Special Issues,” and “Seminarians who Someday want to Minister to Adults are Parenting Teens with Special Issues Concerning Elementary School Children!” I jest, but only slightly. We do have plenty of Bibles, and many of them are overtly complicated. The pages of our Bibles are laden with excessive translation and supplementary notes, chapter and verse numbers, section headings, commentary materials, multi-column formatting, pictures, and a plethora of other sidebar-like filler and hard-to-label oddities aimed at more topics and issues than can be counted. Simplicity is not a feature in many - if any - of our many, many Bibles.
My rating: stars
Any proceeding notes, thoughts, and/or brief commentary concern chapter one of a must-read book titled Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class in a Consumer Church, by Paul Louis Metzger. Read More
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