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Oh Shit! It’s Jesus!: a review
Oh Shit! It’s Jesus!the relevance of Jesus without all the religious crapby Steve Hughes Is it ok to deconstruct Jesus? Maybe not, but Hughes definitely works to deconstruct the telling of Jesus which I think is a worthy endeavor. In chapters with titles like Street Preachers, Jesus Freaks, Bible Thumpers, & Other Annoying People; There’s Nothing [...]
Songs for a Revolution of Hope: a review
Brian McLaren/Restoration ProjectSongs for a Revolution of HopeCDAbout Restoration Project: from the website, Restoration Village: The Restoration Project is a vision of musical and artistic partnership. It is founded upon the eternal hope of a loving creator and a belief that artists able to express anything about this hope and creator become a vehicle for [...]
Hokey Pokey : a book review
Hokey Pokey: Curious People Finding What Life’s All Aboutby Matthew Paul Turner While I may get to experience an epic from tme to time, sometimes I just want my life to resemble a limerick - something short but true that makes only a little sense but gives me something to talk about with friends and strangers. [...]
Feel : A book review
Feel: the power of listening to your heartby Matthew Elliott At first glance, Feel looks like every other up and coming post modern book on the Christian market. The orange cover with the scrawly stylized art; the unusual font and line spacing and interactive pages complete with quotes from the comments section of the blog. Even [...]
We The Purple : a book review
We the Purpleby Marcia Ford(thanks to Mike Morrell/the Ooze for hooking me up with this book to review and many others that will be coming to you quickly now that I’m “back in the blogging saddle”, as it were) The Independent. Not unlike the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot or the legendary Chupacabra - if [...]