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A Theological Reading of “In the Sanctuary of Outcasts”: Coke bottles
Toward the end of Neil White’s gripping memoir, “In the Sanctuary of Outcasts”, he records another encounter with Ella. With his release looming, White was lamenting to Ella his lack of transformation. He writes, “I had decided I needed to change, … Continue reading
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Tagged In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, Neil White
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A Theological Reading of “In the Sanctuary of Outcasts”: Church
I just finished Neil White’s fantastic memoir In the Sanctuary of Outcasts. White spent 12 months — spring 1993 to spring 1994 — incarcerated at the minimum-security Federal Medical Center in Carville, Louisiana. What made this incarceration unique was the “convergence … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Church, Faith, Gospel, Love Others, Missiology, Theology
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A (Bookworm’s) Merry Christmas
Santa was VERY good to this bookworm. Now I have to decide which one to read first!
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Best Books of 2016
Time for my annual list of best books I’ve read this year. (To access my previous “best books” lists, click here.) Each year I set out with a goal to read 52 books — one per week. Admittedly, that’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Jesus, Kingdom Values, Politics, Poverty, Prayer, Race, Scripture, Social Issues
Tagged A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story, Abraham Lincoln, Blake Crouch, City of Mirrors, Dark Matter, David Stern, Dr. Lisa Damour, Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance, Justin Cronin, Kallistos Ware, Michael Frost, Michael Goheen, Miroslav Volf, Onward: Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel, Prophetic Lament, Public Faith in Action, Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel, Rise to Greatness, Russell D. Moore, Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Sabbath as Resistance, Soong-Chan Rah, Surprise the World, The Orthodox Way, The Other Wes Moore, The Way of the Pilgrim, Untangled, Walter Brueggemann, Wes Moore
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Soong-Chan Rah on Identification and Lament
In his seminal work Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times, Soong-Chan Rah writes about Jeremiah’s identification with the people of Jerusalem in the book of Lamentations. While Lamentations 1&2 describe the destruction of Jerusalem from a fairly dispassionate … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Empathy, Kingdom Values, Race, Scripture, Social Issues
Tagged Lamentations, Soong-Chan Rah
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Public Faith in Action
I just finished an insightful book entitled Public Faith in Action: How to Think Carefully, Engage Wisely, and Vote with Integrity by Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz. This volume is a companion piece to Volf’s 2011 work A Public Faith: How Followers … Continue reading
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Summer Reading / Playlist
Things have been pretty quiet over here at the blog lately. Between end-of-summer festivities and the start of a new school year, it’s just been awfully busy around here lately. But I decided to take a little time and write … Continue reading
