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The Good Life – Derwin Gray
What comes to mind when you hear the term The Good Life? What is it that makes a life good? Family, friends, financial success? Is it having a job you love or enough free time […]
Genre: Christian Life
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The Fight to Flourish: Engaging in the Struggle to Cultivate the Life You Were Born to Live – Jennie Lusko
In this deeply personal memoir, pastor’s wife Jennie Lusko shares hard-won wisdom about enduring through unimaginable hardship to still flourish in relationships and grow in Christ. In December 2012, her five-year-old daughter, Lenya, died in […]
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Be Kind to Yourself: Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy – Cindy Bunch
According to the woman who wrote the foreword for Be Kind to Yourself, self-kindness is “an idea we hear very little about these days.” I laughed out loud when I read this, because from my […]
Academic
God and Guns in America – Michael Austin
It tends to happen every time there’s a mass shooting. Las Vegas Orlando Virginia Tech Sandy Hook El Paso Columbine (the list could go on) Reaction to these senseless deaths is swift (thoughts and prayers) […]
Non-Fiction
Follow Him – David Platt
I so desperately want David Platt to write a book called Plattitudes. It’d be a collection of quotes on distinctly David Platt themes: radical obedience, discipleship, anti-materialism, justice, missions work, and so on. Unfortunately for […]
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Living for What Really Matters: 7 Weeks in the Book of Philippians – Teresa Swanstrom Anderson
In Living for What Really Matters, Teresa Swanstrom Anderson guides women through Philippians, drawing on both Scripture and external sources to provide spiritual, social, and political context for Paul’s writing. She provides guidance on how to […]
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Rediscipling the White Church – David Swanson
From the title alone, I knew that Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity would be something I needed to read carefully and consider deeply. I grew up in a rural midwestern […]
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Letters to a Young Congregation – Eric Peterson
Letters to a Young Congregation is the companion book to Letters to a Young Pastor. Where the latter was written by Eugene Peterson to his son, Eric, this is written from Eric to his congregation. […]
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Letters to a Young Pastor – Eric Peterson & Eugene Peterson
Letter-writing is a lost art. In the age of emails and voice-to-text, it should be easier than ever, but, as a society, we’ve by-and-large put such conversations to the side and focused on more disposable […]
Non-Fiction
Weep with Me: How Lament Opens a Door for Racial Reconciliation – Mark Vroegop
In Weep with Me: How Lament Opens a Door for Racial Reconciliation, white pastor Mark Vroegop shares what he has learned from his church about how to have conversations across lines of difference without suspicion […]