Books

Books

Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann

Edwin Searcy, ed.

Broken We Kneel: Reflections on Faith and Citizenship

Diana Butler Bass

Listening for God (Vol. 4)

Paula J. Carlson and Peter S. Hawkins, eds.

Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society

Marva J. Dawn

Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church

Kenda Creasy Dean

A Servant's Manual: Christian Leadership for Tomorrow

Michael W. Foss

The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian

Brian D. McLaren

Take the Next Step: Leading Lasting Change in the Church

Lovett H. Weems Jr.

The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War

Elisabeth Sifton

Beyond the Ordinary: 10 Strengths of U.S. Congregations

Cynthia Woolever and Deborah Bruce

Take and Read

Oct 19, 2004 reviewed by Anthony B. Robinson
This volume collects prayers with which, over 42 years, famed Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann began his classes and led worship. The prayers are rich in imagery, grounded in scripture and passionate in faith.

Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk

Walter Russell Mead

Using American Power

Oct 05, 2004 reviewed by James Gilchrist

Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America

Peter N. Stearns

Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America

Oct 05, 2004 reviewed by J. Bradley Wigger
The cover of Peter Stearns’s book gets your attention. It portrays an iconic mid-20th-century television mother who seems either to be gripped by a migraine or on the threshold of an “I’m losing my mind” scream.

A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry

Ann Hostetler, ed.

A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry

Oct 05, 2004 reviewed by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry.

Edited by Ann Hostetler. University of Iowa Press, 199 pp., $19.95 paperback.

The Church That Forgot Christ

Jimmy Breslin

The Church That Forgot Christ

Sep 21, 2004 reviewed by Edward L. Beck
Mark Twain once said, “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” If this is true, then Jimmy Breslin is in harm’s way. He unleashes his sometimes irrational anger at the Roman Catholic Church—its bishops, its priests and even its would-be saints.