What kind of room are you living in? Not the actual one in your place of residence, but metaphorically speaking. Escape Rooms A couple of my kids have each recently done the…
Tag: Theology
Quick Review: Divided By Faith
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America was written roughly 20 years ago by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith. I won’t leave many thoughts here because…
Quick Review: Exclusion & Embrace
I finally finished Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation by Miroslav Volf. I bought this in 2012 and started it, then got distracted by moving to the…
Quick Review: Interfaith Just Peacemaking
I just finished not too long ago the book Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on the New Paradigm of Peace and War edited by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. This was…
Quick Review: Tears We Cannot Stop
Last week I got a chance to read Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. It is in the same vein as James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and Te-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, which were also quite powerful…
New Review: The Significance Principle
I wanted to post a brief review of a book I read this fall called The Significance Principle by Les Carter and Jim Underwood. From what I can tell it’s not a…