A Call for Goodreads

I’d like to think I’m a person of at least moderate intelligence, and that I have friends that are likewise.  With that in mind I am submitting this poll: Are you literate?
I may not be the most prolific reader in the world, but I do enjoy reading good books.  As such, at the advice of [...]

Look at me, I’m a readerer.

Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens by Neil Cole

My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
I loved this book. Cole’s ideas about the church being an organic living entity rather than a mechanical machine really ring true. His ideas about the simplicity of sharing one’s faith and “doing church” really resonated with me [...]

I’m a Writer!

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 [...]

The bookshelf loses weight and I can’t

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 [...]

Another Notch on the Book Belt

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 [...]

My Reading Update

Last year Mike read through 50+ books and this year has a goal of reading 52 books (that’s one a week for my math challenged friends).  He threw the challenge out there and I answered the bell.  So far a lot of my reading has come through the gift of nine free ebooks for Christmas [...]