Articles in Book Review
Miroslav Volf and Matthew Croasmun. For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2019. Pp 196. ISBN 978-1-58743-401-3. $21.99 hardback.
For the Life aims to motivate us to focus our theology on …
Andrew Linzey. Animal Theology. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 224 pages. $19.95.
At the end of the book of Jonah, God asks his prophet “should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which …
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About The People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 386pp. $17.58
New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell disarms our assumptions in a way that …
Carolyn B. Helsel. Preaching about Racism: A Guide for Faith Leaders. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2018. 132pp. $33.95.
In 2020 many of us sense a nagging call to address racism from the pulpit. Unfortunately, we do not have …
by
Neal D. Presa
Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. $9.99. 202 pages.
Mars Hill Church (Grand Rapids, MI) pastor …
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. 238pp. $16.81
by Neal D. Presa
Famed Episcopalian priest and professor, Barbara Brown Taylor, employs her wise pen to …
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari. New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2018. 372pp. $16.53
by Neal D. Presa
Historian Yuval Noah Harari of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has written a trilogy of …
by Larry Toney
Soul Support – Spiritual Encounters at Life’s End – Memoir of a Hospital Chaplain by Joan Paddock Maxwell, Resource Publications, Eugene, Oregon, 2017.
In the prologue of Joan Maxwell’s helpful book, Soul Support Spiritual …
by Neal D. Presa
The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race by Willie James Jennings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. 366 pages. $24.41
Willie James Jennings gives us a tour de force in …
by Neal D. Presa
The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Volume One by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Edited by Isabel Best. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012. 240 pages. $25.46.
Karl Barth urged his students to read both newspapers and …
by Lisa Jarnot
Crayons for the City: Reneighboring Communities of Faith to Rebuild Neighborhoods of Hope by Kevin R. Yoho. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. 276 pages. $33.
In the mid-1990s, when consigned to what looked like …
