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Category Archives: book review
Book Review: Raising White Kids, by Jennifer Harvey
Harvey has plenty of useful things to say to parents and others wondering how to shift their conversation around race from optimistic color-blindness to realistic anti-racism. Continue reading
Book Review: For Sabbath’s Sake
“Should this be your first go of sabbath, don’t write that you want to observe a strict twenty-four hours in a mountain cave while doing a headstand atop hot coals.”
Good advice abounds in this new book by J. Dana Trent, as does good humour. Continue reading
Healing Spiritual Wounds, by Carol Howard Merritt (Book Review)
I love a good story, and Carol Howard Merritt’s book, Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with a Loving God after Experiencing a Hurtful Church, is full of them. But it is not just a memoir of leaving one theological tradition for … Continue reading
Ruined – a memoir by Ruth Everhart: Review
Let’s get the disclaimers out of the way first: yes, I have met the author. We are both members of an online group of (mostly) female clergy-types called the RevGalBlogPals. We both contributed to a book edited by the RevGals … Continue reading
Posted in book review
Tagged faith, God, memoir, redemption, RevGalBlogPals, Ruth Everhart, sexual violence
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There’s a Woman in the Pulpit
There is much hope in this book. There is so much to relate to and to remember. This is a book for women who are pastors, who are mothers, who are sisters, who are daughters, who are human. Which means it will probably work for a whole lot of men, too… Continue reading
Crossover
A crossover from today’s Bible Challenge blog, just because Leftovers: Readings for today were Isaiah 7-9, I Thessalonians 5, Psalm 28, OR Judith 15 The day of my graduation from seminary was supposed to be the Rapture (according to the … Continue reading
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Tagged left behind, Leftovers, Rapture, Tom Perrotta
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Book Review: Plastic – A Toxic Love Story, by Susan Freinkel
Following my adventures with plastic knitting (see previous post), I was fascinated to hear of the publication of Susan Freinkel’s Plastic: A Toxic Love Story (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). Freinkel’s journalistic exploration of the history and present and future … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, knitting, plastic, Plastic A Toxic Love Story, Susan Freinkel
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