In his new book, The Baptizing of America, Rabbi James Rudin speaks of a developing American “Christocracy.” Kevin Phillips, in American Theocracy, writes about a developing “theocracy.” Rudin is a moderate and Phillips has carefully detailed his own odyssey. Reviews of Phillips are coming in
A new Pentecost The time has come to let the fundamentalists have the church. So says Rev. Matthew Fox in his new book A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity, where he presents his own 95 theses in the tradition of Martin
This sort of a life Janice Josephine Carney‘s Purple Hearts and Silver Stars is unique among transgender memoirs for many reasons. First, it is not written in narrative form. It includes poems, essays, short stories, journal entries, play excerpts, and “rants.” Secondly, these various writings
Never judge a book by its cover. We’re all pretty familiar with this thought, but what seems most important about a truism is not what it says but how you interpret and act on it. Do you see a No Trespassing sign or an engraved
Living in hope when you’re not an optimist An optimist, my favorite definition goes, is someone who falls off a skyscraper and as he passes the thirtieth floor thinks: “So far, so good.” The Bush presidency, the corporate take-over of the US, and the destruction
Paradox of grace Jim Mulholland and Philip Gulley seem to get a kick out of stirring up controversy. As the authors of the controversial book If Grace is True: Why God Will Save Every Person they’re getting used to their status as targets. Their book
If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person is a book that is sheer joy to read and experience. It turns traditional orthodox theology, be it Reformation, Pre-Reformation, Post-Reformation, Orthodox on its ear and is perhaps the best contemporary exposition of Universalism in today’s
Stranger in a strange land John Shelby Spong, the controversial Episcopal bishop who writes such provocatively titled books as Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speakers to Believers in Exile and Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture,
Raising up prophets to society When I first picked up Dr. Robert Minor’s book Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human, I couldn’t help but be reminded of my teen years when we were
It isn’t so much that Marc Adams doesn’t do interviews, it’s more like he doesn’t seek them out. Nine years have passed since the release of Marc Adams’ first gay-themed book, The Preacher’s Son. In reality, The Preacher’s Son is his autobiography. At least as