Meet the Author Eric Friedman is an actuary, and a first time author. He graduated from Stanford with majors in mathematics and economics. As a young professional, he sought to determine how to maximize the impact of his giving. Reinventing Philanthropy is the result of Friedman's personal experiences and continued study in an attempt to formulate an answer to this question of interest to many donors. Book Basics Reinventing Philanthropy (available later this Read More …
Books
Review of But I Don’t See You as Asian (#1148)
Meet the Author Bruce Reyes-Chow is an ordained Presbyterian pastor, and 3rd generation Chinese/Filipino. He is a consultant who previously served as founding pastor of Mission Bay Community Church. His effective use of social media while serving as moderator of the General Assembly of the 2.3 million member PCUSA helped many mainline leaders appreciate the value of social media for ministry. Reyes-Chow has written two e-books: The Definitive-ish Guide Read More …
Review of The Fourth Gospel (#1141)
Meet the Author John Shelby Spong was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark for 24 years before his retirement in 2000. Since that time he has taught at Harvard University, the University of the Pacific, and Drew University. Additionally, he delivers more than 200 public lectures each year as a visiting lecturer at churches and universities. Bishop Spong’s books have sold over one million copies, including Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World (2011 - Read More …
Review of Rewire (#1134)
Meet the Author Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. Additionally, he is heavily involved in Global Voices, an organization he co-founded that publishes news and opinions from citizen media in over 150 nations and thirty languages. Previously, he was a leader in the emerging world of technology. Zuckerman founded Geekcorps (a technology volunteer corps that sends IT specialists to Read More …
Review of Dangerous (#1127)
Meet the Editors Kevin Hendricks is the founder of Monkey Outta Nowhere, and author of Addition by Adoption: Kids, Causes and 140 Characters (2010). His writing has been featured here on So What Faith on multiple occasions, including "Effectively Welcoming Visitors" and "Baptist Dance Party Goes Viral." Chuck Scoggins is a senior partner at the 374 Design Agency where he runs Motion Design Media, a division of the agency focused on Read More …
Review of God Revised (#1120)
Meet the Author Galen Guengerich is Senior Minister of All Souls Unitarian Church, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Board of Directors of Interfaith Alliance. Previously, Guengerich has served as Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary. In 2004, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago; his dissertation is titled Comprehensive Commitments and the Public World: Tillich, Rawls and Whitehead on the Nature of Justice. Book Read More …
Review of The Shambhala Principle (#1113)
Meet the Author Sakyong Mipham is the head of Shambhala, a a global community of meditation and retreat centers founded by his father, the Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He is the author of the numerous books, including one bestseller: Turning the Mind into an Ally (2004). Shambhala Shambhala is "a union of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism with the Shambhala teachings introduced by Chögyam Trungpa in the 1970s, based on the warrior Read More …
Review of How the West Really Lost God (#1106)
Meet the Author Mary Tedeschi Eberstadt is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and consulting editor to Policy Review, the Hoover Institution's bimonthly journal of essays and reviews on American politics and society. Her work considers issues related to American society, culture, and philosophy. Eberstadt's previous books include The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism (2010), and Home-Alone Read More …
Three New Books (#1099)
In keeping with my goal of not getting behind on sharing my thoughts about books I have read, I have started to diversify the ways I share my thoughts. In addition to the typical So What review (providing an introduction to the author, a review of content, and remarks about applicability), I have started offering just ratings for select books. Using a scale of 1 to 5 (something I adopted when I began posting select reviews on Amazon), the ratings of the last three books I read follow: Read More …
Review of On God’s Side (#1092)
Meet the Author Jim Wallis is president and CEO of Sojourners where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. He has written ten books including two New York Times bestsellers: The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post–Religious Right America (2008) and God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (2006). Wallis regularly teaches a course on “Faith, Social Justice, and Public Life” at Georgetown Read More …