Summer, the days I believe to be perfectly fitted for fiction, are upon us. Here are a few titles you should not miss. The Dog Stars, Peter Heller (Vintage) A flu pandemic has wiped most of the world’s populate from…
WINN RECOMMENDS: Books that matter
Some of the very best stories are the true ones. Here are two memoirs and one collection of heroic figures that would be worthy of your time. Booked, Karen Swallow Prior (T.S. Poetry Press) Prior is an English professor, so…
WINN RECOMMENDS: Books that matter
The World is Not Ours To Save, by Tyler Wigg-Stevenson (IVP) A number of years ago, I read an essay where Tyler Wigg-Stevenson said, “The world is not ours to save, but we do serve the mission of the God…
OPINION: Yoga and a Christianity for the body
I’m no yoga apologist. In fact, my wife Miska does Bikram Yoga where they heat the room to 105 degrees and then strain, contort, sweat great drops of blood and try not to collapse on the floor for one and half hours….
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WINN RECOMMENDS Winn Collier Finding ourselves in the season of Lent forces question of how our practices, our bodily, lived experiences, encourage or distract our spirituality. These two titles explore these questions. The Life of the Body, Valerie Hess…
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Finding ourselves in the season of Lent forces question of how our practices, our bodily, lived experiences, encourage or distract our spirituality. These two titles explore these questions. The Life of the Body, Valerie Hess and Lane M. Arnold (IVP)…
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The Evolution of Adam, by Peter Enns (Brazos Press) In the area of human origins, the theological debate currently brewing is over whether or not the creation story demands a literal, historical Adam and Eve (verses Adam and Eve as…
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How God Became King, N.T. Wright (Harper Collins) Believing that for all our study of the Gospels, we’ve obscured or forgotten what they are actually about, Wright sets out to re-narrate the story. Wright believes the Gospels fundamentally tell the…
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N.T. Wright’s re-telling of the Gospels as the story of a new king who has come to rule over the world; a comprehensive survey of the concept of justice across both Old and New Testaments by Dale Patrick; and a…