Category: Books
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BOOK REVIEW: A LOVER’S QUARREL WITH THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH
Earlier this week I tweeted (yeah, I Twitter; @jamiedgreening) that I was reading the book A Lover’s Quarrel with the Evangelical Church by Warren Cole Smith. Almost immediately a pastor friend of mine asked me to write a review of it when I was finished. Smith’s premise can best be summarized from a brief sentence…
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SIPPING COFFEE, THINKING HARD
I had a missing-time experience this morning so I decided to take advantage of it. No, not an alien abduction kind of missing time, but the other kind of missing-time. Someone I was supposed to be seeing was suddenly unavailable and I had a hole in my schedule. I took advantage of this hole and…
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A PRAYER BOOK IDEA
This weekend I got a great idea for a new book. I thought about it all day as we drove off to Long Beach, Washington to spend some time for spring break. But here is what I was thinking—a prayer book for everyday life—with written prayers for all kinds of everyday things and events. One…
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PREACHING WITH THE AMAZON KINDLE
I am a bibliophile, and I like being that way. For me a book is a beautiful thing in and of itself. Harper Lee once wrote that it was a sin to kill a mockingbird, for me it is a sin to throw a book away. Books should be kept and treasured. When their bindings…