The subtitle of this book is “How neighborhood churches are transforming mission, discipleship and community.” This is an excellent book that helps congregations think through the future of what it means to be a congregation. It offers a model, but it does not pigeonhole congregations into a specific way of being a congregation. And while the book was published in 2014, the concepts and ideas…

I picked this book up after watching a Youtube video that included the author. The subject was about dealing with conflict in healthy ways. This is something that I think is so very needed since our society in so many aspects are full of conflict. And if seems as though…

I honestly can’t believe I haven’t come across this book before I did. It was published in 2018 and I loved it. I love thinking about the idea that worship is a subversive act because it opens our hearts and minds to better seeing what God is offering is far…

I was excited to read this book, based on the title alone. The subtitle is “Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture.” This is what we are living in. I have often said that we don’t do health care in America, we do sick management. We don’t do proactive…

This is a brand new book, being published in 2022, yet the content of it is timeless. Ruttenberg has identified that we live in a culture that is in great need of repentance and repair. I don’t think this is controversial. The question is how? Ruttenberg looks at one model…

This book was published in 2020. Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize author and it shows throughout this well written book that examines exactly what the subtitle of the book declares — “The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.” The subject is not new, but looking at how the world is facing this…

This is not a new book. It was published in 2001. And in 2015 the author passed away. But I found this book to be timely none the less. After all, the author was dealing with a topic that is timeless — nostalgia. Boym’s main focus is to look at…

I’ve been thinking about education over the last few days. Here in Carlisle, there is a pretty important school board election that will determine the direction of where the district goes going forward. Will we continue on the same path, which has produced a pretty good school district and school…

There seems to be this fascination in America with the idea that bigger is better. It goes along with speed, strength, accumulation of wealth, and more. It’s also a focus on more. As if what is present isn’t good enough. In the secular world, businesses are constantly looking for an…