Meet the Author Rob Bell is the Founding Pastor and Pastor Emeritus of Mars Hill Bible Church (est. 1999), a congregation that grew to over 10,000 under his leadership. While attracting a young audience to the church, his message reached a far wider audience through a series of two dozen thought provoking brief (10-14 minutes per DVD) NOOMA videos (2002-2009). Bell's previous books include The New York Times bestseller Love Wins, along with Velvet Read More …
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Love in the Time of Algorithms (#1036)
Meet the Author Dan Slater is a widely published author of journalism and creative non-fiction. Slater, a graduate of Brooklyn Law School, previously served as a legal affairs reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and GQ. Currently, he is a contributor to Fast Company. Book Basics Love in the Time of Algorithms explores how technology has changed the way people date. As the product of a union Read More …
Review of Why Priests? (#1029)
Meet the Author Garry Wills joined the faculty of the history department at Northwestern University, and currently serves the university as professor of history emeritus. He is the author of nearly forty books, including multiple bestsellers and a Pulitzer Prize winner based on his study of Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. Wills, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, is an historian who Read More …
Review of Jesus is _____ (#1025)
Meet the Author Judah Smith and his wife Chelsea serve together as the lead pastors of City Church in Seattle, WA. Previously, Judah served as a youth pastor for ten years at City Church, a congregation that his mother and father led as founding pastors. Book Basics Soon after taking over as the City Church's lead pastor, Smith launched an incredibly successful, creative, and thought provoking marketing campaign designed to reach the city of Seattle: Jesus is _____. The Read More …
Review of Making Habits, Breaking Habits (#1023)
Meet the Author Jeremy Dean is a second career psychologist best known for his popular PsyBlog, which features discussion of "psychological studies that are relevant to everyday life." Since leaving his career in law, Dean has earned two degrees in psychology and is currently working on a doctorate in that field. Book Basics Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick offers a pragmatic approach to a challenging topic based Read More …
Review of Altar Ego (#1019)
Meet the Author Craig Groeschel is the founding pastor of LifeChurch.tv, which has grown from a single campus in 1996 to a multi-campus church with weekly worship experiences in fourteen locations, including an online campus. Groeschel has written six books, including The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living as if He Doesn’t Exist (2010, read my review here) and It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2011). Book Basics Altar Ego: Becoming Read More …
Review of Beyond the Possible (#1016)
Meet the Authors Married for thirty-one years, Cecil Williams - a pastor and civil rights leader - and Janice Mirikitani, a poet and community activist, have worked together to make the world a better place by investing the last fifty years of their lives in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. Since accepting the call to serve as pastor of Glide Memorial Methodist Church in 1963, Rev. Williams has worked tirelessly transforming a congregation of 35 into a community offering over 90 Read More …
Review of Rise of the Time Lords (#1013)
Meet the Author Michael Belote is an engineer who has always been intrigued about blending his interests with his faith since becoming a born-again Christian as a young adult. More recently, he has written prolifically about his Christian faith on his blog: Reboot Christianity. Book Basics I rarely read, and even more infrequently review, self-published books. Occasionally, however, the content of an author's request for a review or the unique nature of her/his writing Read More …
Review of Occupy the Bible (#1008)
Meet the Author Susan Thistlethwaite is a Professor of Theology at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and previously served as the institution's president from 1998 and 2008. She is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, serves on the Boards of the Center for American Progress and the Interfaith Youth Core, and writes a weekly column for the Washington Post. Thistlethwaite's previous books include of Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Read More …
Review of Not Less than Everything (#1004)
Meet the Editor Catherine Wolff served as director of the Arrupe Center for Community-Based Learning at Santa Clara University. She is married to Tobias Wolff, an author and professor. Book Basics Not Less than Everything is a one of a kind book that features many voices, including "contemporary journalists, novelists, scholars and poets" (p.5). Each author contributes a single short chapter about a saint -- formally recognized by the Catholic Church or unofficial yet Read More …