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"Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World" by Jennie Allen
For years now I've been interested in the concept of deep community: what it is, how to create it, and the stories of people who have...
Dec 26, 20243 min read
Practicing the Way: A Christian Foundations Book for a New Generation
A Book I'd Recommend If I knew someone was new to Christianity or curious about it, Practicing the Way by John Mark Comer might be the...
Jun 10, 20247 min read
Two Children's Books: Two Ways to Deconstruct
Two Children's Books about God Pictured above are two great kids books that our family owns. The first is Jesus Showed Us! by Brad Jersak...
Feb 4, 20245 min read
What It Takes to Truly Have Diversity (Cancel Culture Series #3)
In post #1 of this series I shared about Charles Murray as an extreme example of cancel culture in action, and in post #2 I looked at the...
Jan 26, 20246 min read
A Coming Wave of Progressive Cancel Culture? (Cancel Culture Series #2)
As I stated in the first blog post of this series, I've been fascinated by the concept of cancel culture in the past few months and I've...
Jan 4, 20246 min read
I've Been Thinking About Cancel Culture (#1)
Nerding Out on Cancel Culture For some reason I've been nerding out recently on the topic of free speech and cancel culture, as well as...
Oct 13, 20239 min read
"Agreeing to Disagree" and Andy Stanley's Quasi-Affirming Conference
One of the largest US mega-churches, led by Andy Stanley, one of the most influential US pastors, broke Christian internet recently when...
Sep 15, 20235 min read
The Road to the Sexual Revolution
I just finished reading a fascinating book called "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism,...
Mar 26, 20233 min read
Restoring Your Weary Soul (audiobook review)
I've really been appreciating John Eldredge lately. Years and years ago I got a bad taste of him because I read his Wild At Heart book...
Feb 20, 20232 min read
How to Hear God by Pete Greig
As I discussed in this blog post, I've been on a journey of desiring and seeking to hear God's "voice", and this book by Pete Greig was...
Dec 15, 20222 min read
Raising Kids in the Story of God
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book about how parents can raise their kids in the Christian faith. Parenting in general is already an...
Nov 18, 20222 min read
Single and Christian?
I'm a big fan of resources that apply the Way of Jesus to specific life circumstances. Sometimes we need simple and general reminders...
Nov 6, 20223 min read
Essential Reading: When Everything's On Fire
Christianity in the Western world is going through a profound transitional phase. I've heard some people refer to it as "the collapse of...
Sep 24, 20222 min read
The World, The Flesh, & The Devil
Despite being a Christian for essentially my whole life, I've recently been realizing that I have come to believe certain unbiblical...
May 7, 20222 min read
Aggressively Happy by Joy Marie Clarkson
I was drawn to this book by it's subtitle: "A realist's guide to believing in the goodness of life." At times through the turmoil of the...
Apr 27, 20222 min read
Learning How to Hear God
I know to many people the concept of "hearing from God" makes them uncomfortable. Maybe it sounds like a wishy-washy mystical experience....
Apr 15, 20222 min read
Sexless in the City by Kat Harris
From the first ever youth pastors down to the present day, it has stereotypically been our job to do a teaching series on sex every one...
Mar 17, 20221 min read
And Yet: Finding Joy in Lament
As part of my own mental health journey I have a list of books I want to read that are at the intersection of mental health (or suffering...
Feb 6, 20221 min read
This Beautiful Truth by Sarah Clarkson
Sarah Clarkson has written a great book about how a follower of Jesus can deal with suffering. Her book is not a theoretical or...
Jan 30, 20221 min read
God Behaving Badly by David T Lamb
Is the God of the Old Testament angry, sexist, and racist? If you've ever wondered those things here's a book for you! Anyone who has...
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