How The West Really Lost God: A Review
About halfway through grad school course work, I had a professor who asked each student in our class what we wanted to do with our lives once we’d earned our Ph.D.’s. His enthusiasm and encouragement...
View ArticleTeach Us to Want: A Q&A with Author Jen Pollock Michel
In her new book, Teach Us To Want, Jen Pollock Michel guides us on a journey of understanding who we are when we want, and reintroduces us to a God who gives us the desires of our hearts. Pollock...
View ArticleCalled: A Book Review
I began reading Mark Labberton’s Called: The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today the same morning that I met a new mom friend from my twins’ Gymboree class for coffee. Their family had recently...
View ArticleEvangelicals and Sex: A Q&A with Amy DeRogatis
“The biggest misconception is that evangelicals are anti-sex. They are not. Contrary to popular stereotypes that characterize conservative Christians as prudes, since the 1960s evangelicals have been...
View ArticleQuestions for the 21st Century Church: A Q&A with Jeb Gaither
This month at the Patheos Book Club, we’re talking about the new book, Questions for the 21st Century Church and Ministry Leaders of North America by Jeb Gaither. Here, the author talks about his book...
View ArticleHeaven’s Muscle: A Q&A with Author Bren Hughes
“My mission is to encourage people to love in spite of their pain, to sense the closeness of God despite their doubts, and to glimpse their full potential in Christ. I do this by offering myself as a...
View ArticleDoes It Really Matter What I Believe About God? A Q&A with David Maxfield
This month in the Patheos Book Club Does It Really Matter What I Believe About God? By David H. Maxfield Author Q&A What inspired you to write this book? Throughout history, people have asked...
View ArticleCalled to the Life of the Mind: A Book Review
Many will glance at the cover of Called to the Life of the Mind: Some Advice for Evangelical Scholars by Richard J. Mouw and think, “Not for me…” Maybe so, but some will change their mind if they give...
View ArticleWatch Your Tongue: A Q&A with Author Nelson Searcy
“Words are never neutral. None of us has ever spoken a neutral word in our entire life. Every word that comes out of your mouth and mine has a consequence attached to it, and that consequence will...
View ArticleBoundless: What Global Expressions of Faith Teach Us About Following Jesus
“We benefit so much from the unique perspectives of people from other cultures. I’ve thought of this process of learning from others as similar to the process of trying a new ethnic cuisine. It...
View ArticleWhat’s The Cause Church? A Q&A with jKonrad Hölé
“Church is detrimental to the individual cause, because too much of current day church postures itself as the cause. A destination place mentality. People know the pew they fit, more than the cause...
View Article“Honestly”: Riffing on Messy Lives, Jesus, and Jazz
Attitudes, especially bad ones, pop up at the most interesting moments. At a church we served, a woman frequently attend who was a nurse. We got along fine – except when I made any mention of anything...
View ArticleGod’s People in the House: A Patheos Q&A with Virginia Foxx
“It may have surprised readers to see how vital prayer is in the individual and collective lives of those serving in high office, and yet this book illuminates that fact as a shining truth. Weekly...
View ArticleEscaping Christianity: A Patheos Q&A with Tom Muzzio
Tom Muzzio has a conversion story – from atheism to Christianity and back to atheism. Along the way, he experiences the inside world of Christian fundamentalism as a convert, then an ordained minister,...
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