Well, I know I’ve been talking about it for a while now. I even had a post about six months ago about my dreams of being an author. Thankfully that day has finally come. It hasn’t been an easy secret to keep over the past while, but Donald Miller finally decided to let the cat [...]
May 29, 2009
Categories: Reading List, life . Tags: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, author, co-author, Donald Miller . Author: benyamen . Comments: 3 Comments
I grew up in Saskatchewan, I’ve lived here my whole life and to this day had no intentions of ever leaving. I’ve seen most of the landscape and lifestyle that North America has to offer and to this day was perfectly content in Saskatchewan. I stress to this day. Then I awoke this morning – [...]
May 13, 2009
Categories: life, politics . Tags: blizzard in may, Brad Wall, moving, Saskatchewan, snow . Author: benyamen . Comments: 1 Comment
The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church by Michael Frost
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was an exciting, encouraging, frustrating and difficult book to read. It left me excited but having no real way to work out what I would like to (not the books fault). If [...]
May 12, 2009
Categories: Reading List, church, religion . . Author: benyamen . Comments: Leave a Comment
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Whether you like Emerging/Emergent church stuff this book makes a very clear case exactly where it has come from historically, theologically, and sociologically. It makes a very clear and fairly fact based argument that we shouldn’t be [...]
May 5, 2009
Categories: Reading List, church, faith, religion . Tags: Book Review, Church History, Emergent, Emerging . Author: benyamen . Comments: 3 Comments