Reading for the Common Good: How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish, C. Christopher Smith. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016. Summary: Explores how the communal practice of reading in congregations fosters a learning community and shared social imagination the results in clearer congregational identity, sense of mission in one's setting, and wider engagement with the environment, economics, and political order. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Reading for the Common Good, by C. Christopher Smith
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Returning to Mapping Your Academic Career
Editor's Note: In Fall 2015, Matthew Boedy (an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of North Georgia) wrote an excellent review of the new InterVarsity Press release. To encourage those on the academic pathway to give Mapping Your Academic Career: Charting the Course of a Professor's Life a read, I refer you to Boedy's earlier review and offer you an additional one by Bob Trube*. May God bless you as you take next steps on the academic pathway. Please continue to forward us comments, … [Read more...] about Returning to Mapping Your Academic Career
Book Review: In The Beginning, GOD, by Marva J. Dawn
In The Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life, Marva J. Dawn. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009. Summary: A series of reflections on the texts of Genesis 1-3 focused not on questions of beginnings and the controversies that surround these chapters but on what they show us of God and how this may lead us into worship. … [Read more...] about Book Review: In The Beginning, GOD, by Marva J. Dawn
Book Review: Faith-Rooted Organizing, by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel
Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World, Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014. Summary: Most advocacy and activism efforts have been organized around secular principles. The authors explore what organizing and advocacy work that is deeply and thoroughly rooted in Christian principles would look like and illustrate this from their years of experience. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Faith-Rooted Organizing, by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel
Book Response: Popcultured
As part of his Doctor of Ministry (DMin) in Ministry to Emerging Generations (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary), Tom's written a number of book responses and given several short presentations (personal and group). In this series he not only "shares the wealth," but also looks forward to your feedback as he refines his project: An argument for vocational discernment for graduate studies in the context of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (Stay tuned to learn more!). Earlier posts on the program: Ministry to Emerging … [Read more...] about Book Response: Popcultured