WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TITHING?
Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don’t Give Away More Money provides a startling look at the state of charitable donations among American Christians, who give very little, if any, of their money to charity.
THE POET WITHIN
I love poetry—I love reading and writing it—but
for
years now I have
been what Julia Cameron, author of
The
Artist’s Way, calls “a creative anorexic.”
In other words,
the voice in my
head that criticizes
every line of poetry I write has
become more powerful than
the
impulse to create it.
WHY WE READ WHAT WE READ
Where does the
prompting to read what we
read come from? I would like to
hope that it
is
God’s gentle hand that leads us to abandon one book
and pick up
another.
THE RESTLESS READER
I wish I could say
that I am a scholar or an intellectual, but the
truth is that 18 years ago I
first read the bible, John of the Cross,
and Augustine, and have been looking
ever since for the fix those books
gave me.
INTERACTIVE FAITH
The world envisioned and helping to be formed by the
interfaith
movement is one where differences are of supreme value and life’s
highest goal is to come to a better understanding of “the other.”
THE JOYS OF RE-READING
Sometimes re-reading your favorite books can be more profitable than
reading new ones (or ones
that are new to you).
HOW GREEN IS MY BIBLE?
From our new Faithfully Reading blogger Jana Riess: "The Green Bible
makes it verdantly,
depressingly clear that the Bible assumes explicit
connections between
God’s blessings and an abundant earth."
THE WORDS OF JESUS:
A GOSPEL OF THE SAYINGS OF OUR LORD
WITH REFLECTIONS BY PHYLLIS TICKLE
Phyllis Tickle’s latest book is an attempt to reintroduce the intensity and
power of all of Jesus’ sayings by removing what she calls the “connective
tissue” from the gospel passages.
A NEW BOOK BY JEAN-PIERRE ISBOUTS
YOUNG JESUS: RESTORING THE “LOST YEARS” OF A SOCIAL ACTIVIST AND RELIGIOUS DISSIDENT
Having read
Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, I was
surprised to find that
a book by a relatively unknown
writer could
impart a good deal
of new information and greatly deepen my
understanding of the
life and mission of Jesus.
JON SWEENEY'S ALMOST CATHOLIC
John Tintera begins his blog with Almost Catholic
