Writing months before the 2004 presidential election, Thomas Frank predicted that many members of the working and middle classes would vote on issues of culture, not economics. Being correct on this point won’t bring satisfaction to Frank, who begins and ends What’s the Matter with
I first heard of Philip Yancey when his book What’s So Amazing About Grace? came out in 1997. Even though many people whom I respected raved about the book, I was not interested in reading the book. Why would I? It was written by a man
On the surface, Anthony Venn-Brown was a happily married father-of-two and an evangelist preacher for the Assemblies of God Church — but he was living a lie. Tired of feeling torn and fragmented, he confessed and came out, and the results of that confession took
Reshaping power With a title like Why Bush Must Go: A Bishop’s Faith-Based Challenge you might expect The Right Reverend Bennett J. Sims’ book to be a political screed, filled with rants about how horribly our president has led this country through days filled with
Growing the honest church Rev. Dr. Andrew J. Good has worked in the ordained ministry for over forty years, chiefly in United States. The main issues addressed in his book The Dishonest Church concern fear and cowardice, honesty and courage, pain and growth in the
Once an unspoken and nearly unseen taboo within the black community, the topic of homosexuality has repeatedly resurfaced in recent years as many black churches and community leaders have struggled to address issues concerning a lifestyle often demonized, misinterpreted and exclusively seen only through the
Taking back the text “If you can’t or won’t understand the Bible, others will surely interpret it for you.” This is the premise from which John Buehrens writes in his new book Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals. It’s a
Listen to the podcast interview The Ex-Gay Wars War has been declared against GLBT people on many battlefronts. Religion, politics and ignorance have been launched like nuclear missiles against all of us in recent years and months and days. All-out war has been declared against
I’ll start my review of Mark D. Jordan’s latest book, Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech, with a few confessions, appropriate, I suppose, to the title of his book. First, this is the only book by Jordan I’ve read. I’ve been aware
I recently secured a copy of “The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today” by Alan Sears and Craig Osten, published in 2003 by Broadman & Holman Publishers, the fractured publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. This 229-page book is the