“The Forgotten Ways” Alan Hirsch

“If there is a known and successful cure for an illness, patients generally prefer the doctor to use the known cure rather than seek to design a better one. It is rightly asked how we are ever to find a better cure if at each critical moment we always opt for the traditional treatment?”

I have [...]

“Church Re-Imagined” by Doug Pagitt

It’s an imagi-nation.
“The time has come,” Jesus said. “The Kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the Good News!”
I had always understood the “Good News” as summed up in the life, death, resurrection, ascension, and promised return of Jesus. After reading this almost innocuously short passage, I started wondering. What was the Good News [...]

“Finding Our Way Again” Brian McLaren

I will admit that I am a Brian McLaren fan. After getting into the “New Kind of Christian” series, I had to pick this one up. The read wasn’t too bad. I missed the narrative style that he uses in his other books. None the less, I enjoyed most of this book. “This new focus [...]