Monthly Archives September 2010

Book review: Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions For Kids

29 September 2010 Book Review  One comment

We've had Sarah Young's Jesus Calling: A 365 Day Journaling Devotional for some time and it has been great. My wife would even read it to the kids much of the time. When we saw the devotional coming out for children, we had to jump on that. Jesus

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What does our religion say to them?

24 September 2010 Theology  One comment

Excellent, profound quote from Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited.

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DVD review: The Least Among You

20 September 2010 Book Review  2 comments

The Least Among You was inspired by the story of Richard Kelly shortly after the Watts riots in the 60's. Kelly, as part of his probation, entered an all white seminary and was quickly thrust into the activity of change and integration.

While

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My upcoming reading list

19 September 2010 Books  One comment

I saw someone else throw out their future reading list and thought I would put on (virtual) paper the books that plan and hope to read between now and the Summer.

Some of these are contingent on my actually obtaining a copy of the text mentioned,

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Chess and The Enemy

18 September 2010 Nonviolence, Theology  No comments

Ephesians 6:10-12 (NLT) "A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on all of God's armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. For we are not fighting

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Blog a Qur’an Day: Surah 25:60-66

11 September 2010 Featured Highlights, Islam  3 comments

Muhsin Khan
And when it is said to them: "Prostrate to the Most Beneficent (Allah)! They say: "And what is the Most Beneficent? Shall we fall down in prostration to that which you (O Muhammad SAW) command us?" And it increases in

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Book Review- The Devil in Pew Number Seven: A True Story

8 September 2010 Book Review, Persecution, Top Stories  3 comments

When my husband told me we would be receiving this book to review I was very excited and this book did not let me down. It had me from the very first page. In fact, I started it in the evening, read until 1:30 in the morning, got up at 6:30am to

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Book Review: One Hand, Two Hands

8 September 2010 Book Review  4 comments

Max Lucado's One Hand, Two Hands engages tiny children, say, up to age 4 or 5. The children will be counting their fingers, clapping their hands, squeezing, flopping, waving, and all sorts of fun activities for those youngsters. We read this to our

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Book review: “Permission to Speak Freely”

7 September 2010 Book Review  2 comments

This is going to be an odd book review, and I don't care.

That sort of honestly and freedom isn't necessarily what this book is talking about, but, in a way, it's close.

The book is called Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art On Fear,

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Book review: “The Boy Who Changed the World”

7 September 2010 Book Review  No comments

The Boy Who Changed the World welcomes youngsters to consider themselves special, to see that what we do matters, and what we do makes a difference. By jumping into the lives of four historic men—who are not necessarily the same old, run of the

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Not that happy with CEB’s Sermon on the Mount

7 September 2010 Bible Translations  4 comments

I really wish all translations would have translation notes like the NET Bible. I would love to understand what they were thinking, why they made the decisions they did, and even what resources helped them come to their conclusions. The Common

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Relevant, readable, and reliable English?

1 September 2010 Bible Translations  10 comments

Taking a look at the new Common English Bible. Just some preliminary thoughts and a little test.

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