“Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ
and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness,
to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust
to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.” 
― N.T. Wright, theologian,
who was born on this day


Our Introductory Reading Guide to N.T. Wright's work

 

* Advent Calendar 2017 – Best Books of 2017!

Each day of December leading up to Christmas, we will feature one of the best books of 2017!
Bookmark this Advent calendar page, and come back every day
to learn more about the book we are featuring on that day…
TODAY's book is now live... 

Too often in our consumer culture, we jump over the season Advent
and straight into Christmas. It is especially easy for us to do so with
the holiday music to which we listen. As we prepare for the beginning of Advent
on Sunday, we offer this playlist of Advent-themed songs.
Some of these are were not necessarily written as Advent songs,
but they wrestle with vital themes of the season nonetheless. 

* Paul Kingsnorth – Confessions of a… [Feature Review]

Environmentalism’s Constaninian Turn  A Review of  Confessions of a
Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays
Paul Kingsnorth   (Paperback: Graywolf Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Ragan Sutterfield

*  5 Essential Ebook Deals for Christian Readers – 30 Nov. 2017

Here are 5 essential ebooks on sale now that are worth checking out:
( Richard Rohr, Howard Thurman, Richard Foster, MORE )

 

* Lauren Pond – Test of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation [Interviews]

One of the best new book releases of this week...
Test of Faith provides a deeply nuanced, personal look at serpent handling that not only invites
greater understanding of a religious practice that has long faced derision and criticism;
it also serves as a meditation on the photographic process, its ethics, and its capacity to generate empathy.

 

* Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics [Review]

Caring for Both the Earth and Those who Inhabit It
A Brief Review of Doughnut Economics: 
Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Kate Raworth   (Hardback: Chelsea Green Books, 2017)
Reviewed by Patrick Bowers