Library Learnings: Progressive Christianity: it’s meant to transform us
A popular (though debatable) aphorism has it that writers should write about what they know—Hemingway is credited with having proffered this counsel. I appear to have shrugged off this exhortation […]
Featured Book: The Death of Omnipotence and the Birth of Amipotence
“In this groundbreaking book, homebrewedchristianity.com contends, author Thomas Jay Oord “explains why omnipotence should be rejected.” Indeed, “Nobody makes a bolder, but more needed argument for why God is not all-powerful.” There’ll […]
Featured Book: Why Christians Should be Leftists
Phil Christman explains Why Christians Should Be Leftists by pointing up The Sermon on the Mount, which begins with the Beatitudes: love, compassion, and selflessness are called for. “He urges all Christians,” […]
Featured Book: The Tears of Things
“[A]nyone who ventures onto social media knows we’re firmly planted in an age of outrage,” The Presbyterian Outlook’s book review editor Amy Pagliarella writes. “We need help. Fast. Enter Franciscan friar and […]
Featured Book: Why Religion Went Obsolete
Christian Smith borrows from a biblical parable to conclude his newest book: “perhaps a season has come for traditional religion’s remaining seeds to fall to the ground and appear to […]