Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals [Hardcover] by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Enuma Okoro, and Shane Claiborne. Zondervan 590 pages. The book begins with, “If you love liturgy, this book is for you. If you don’t know what liturgy is, this book is also for you.” This is followed by a wonderful introduction (yes, for those
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The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News in New Ways by Meredith Gould (Liturgical Press) 134 pages. Meredith has been my e-friend for many years. I know she knows what she is talking about. She regularly participates on this site, and I’ve reviewed at least one other book of hers. This is how she
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How to Pray: Alone, With Others, At Any Time, In Any Place by Stephen Cottrell (Bishop of Reading) 176 pages. I am not going to apologise for my tendency (on this site and elsewhere) of trying to translate the monastic into the context of the domestic. But I also absolutely want to acknowledge that there
The Guidebook: The NRSV Student Bible If you are looking for a study-type Bible for teenagers this may be the one to buy. There is no perfect translation of the Bible into English. But, all things considered, the NRSV is the best. This edition of the Bible assumes intelligent contemporary scholarship. It also assumes that
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I have been reading Damian Thompson’s book The Fix (“How addiction is taking over your world”). Thompson includes addictions to iphones, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol, computer games, and sex. He is arguing what I suspect many of us intuitively know – a lot of contemporary products, and the way we encounter them, are specifically designed to
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Creating A New Zealand Prayer Book by Bishop Brian Carrell Published by Theology House Publications (2013) 126 pages. Kindle version This book is the first substantial memoir covering the whole 25 year period of the Prayer Book Commission and its work. It is a fascinating, personal account that will explain much about that watershed event
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The Jewish Annotated New Testament Edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler This is awesome! Regulars here may remember when I tried to, week by week, give background to the Sunday, three-year-lectionary, readings. This volume goes a long way to providing that kind of information. It helps me, and other Christians, to get a
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NIV Study Bible I recently bought this NIV Study Bible. I already own the 1983 revision of the 1978 NIV Study Bible. The New International Version (NIV) is an eccentric translation. Other versions, each time there is a revision, appropriately rename the translation: The Revised Version, the American Standard Version, (revision of the Authorised Version);
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