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Recommending just about any Campolo book is a minefield. I heard a pastor introduce him as their guest speaker that day say, “You might not agree with everything he says, but this man deserves to be heard.” My old friends – especially the most politically conservative ones – might well either write me off or …
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[I highly recommend these books. Crabb's book is on dealing with suffering, Lamb's is about the difficulties we have with the Old Testament, and the ones by Cole are about how we do church and how we might do it better: Shattered Dreams... God Behaving Badly... Organic Church...] Shattered Dreams– God’s Unexpected Pathway to Joy, …
[A Wideness in God's Mercy / Irresistible Revolution / Submerge] A Wideness in God’s Mercy – The Finality of Jesus Christ in a World of Religions, by Clark Pinnock This book by a respected (albeit, quite controversial) theologian teaches some extremely provocative things about God’s mercy reaching people with no adequate Christian witness. Pinnock is …
[Practicing the Way of Jesus – Free: Spending Your Time and Money On What Matters Most – When Helping Hurts] Practicing the Way of Jesus, by Mark Scandrette Mark, who has a quite radical approach to church and spiritual development, is an acquaintance of mine here in San Francisco. If you wonder about how we …
[Is God To Blame? by Boyd – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Beecher Stowe – Speeches and Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr.] Is God To Blame? By Gregory Boyd I’ve read several of Boyd’s books, and this is the clearest and most concise of his on the subject of God and suffering. This might be …
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