To Whom Does Christianity Belong? Dyron B. Daughrity. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015. Summary: This book argues that when one speaks of “Christianity” this must be understood in global terms in all of its diversity of expression and not simply in the forms we Westerners are most accustomed to. … [Read more...] about Book Review: To Whom Does Christianity Belong?
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Book Review: Spiritual Friendship
Spiritual Friendship: Finding Love in the Church as a Celibate Gay Christian by Wesley Hill. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2015. Summary: This is an exploration of the place of friendship in the life of the Christian, particularly its importance for those who chose, either because of sexual orientation, or other reasons to live celibate, chaste lives. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Spiritual Friendship
Review: The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Pittsburgh: Crown & Covenant Publications, 2012). 154 pp. Rosaria Butterfield is the kind of woman she herself once bitterly opposed. The homeschooling pastor's wife and adoptive mother of four was not raised in the Reformed Presbyterian Church. She was a self-described “lesbian postmodernist,” (p. 41) a professor of English and Queer Theory conducting research on the Promise Keepers movement, when she encountered Christian hospitality at … [Read more...] about Review: The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert