Reviews

Growing Up In the Crevice
It felt like a betrayal of Christianity to have an “inkling that there could be more than one pathway to the Infinite.”

The Task of Forgiveness and Redemption
Confession is for humans. It’s a human practice to help us deal with
the shame. Confession’s not for God’s sake.

You Really Can
Ayers draws upon a vast knowledge of other great Christian thinkers; on art and music and literature, and what I can only imagine are a

Standing Closer to Suffering: A review of Everything is Tuberculosis
A tuberculosis outbreak began in the Kansas City, KS area in January of last year (2024). The outbreak is ongoing, with seventy confirmed active cases

Communion is Everything
I have been waiting for this book for more than twenty years. You see, when I first read Mark Gornik’s 2002 book To Live in

Joyful Companions for These Dark Times
by Angela Carpenter John Hendrix’s The Mythmakers defies simple explanation. On one level, it is the true story of a friendship and a testament to

The Life of a….Prodigal Sheep?
I vividly remember my first “women supporting women” moment. My friends and I were sitting in the back of the school bus in the Spring

When the Church Wounds
I started reading When the Church Harms God’s People over six months ago. Typically, it takes me two or three weeks to read a book

Rooted: Sustenance for Transformation
I often avoid driving the road that passes by the land that once was my grandpa’s orchard. The apple trees are gone now, the old

They Saw a Game: Review of The Unbiased Self by Erin Devers
When I taught Social Psychology in the spring, I began the semester with a story about a football game between Dartmouth and Princeton in 1951.

A Sustaining Vision: The Soulwork of Justice
In an era when social justice movements often burn bright and fast, leaving exhausted activists in their wake, Wes Granberg-Michaelson offers something desperately needed: a

A Crisis of Imagination: Spiritual Formation and Development
The opening words of Lanta Davis’ Becoming by Beholding: The Power of the Imagination in Spiritual Formation led me to expect a much different kind