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Book Review: Dessert First – Preparing for Death while Savoring Life, by J. Dana Trent
So why does a book about death and grieving have such an odd title? Death is coming for each of us, so we might as well embrace our mortal life and enjoy it, grief and all, with all of its sweetness, tartness, and saltiness. Continue reading
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Tagged chaplaincy, death, funeral, grief, J. Dana Trent, life, memoir, ritual, theology
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Book Review: Made to Move, by Wendy LeBolt
Have you ever heard of a Kinesthetic Christian? Neither had I, until Wendy LeBolt sent me a copy of her book to review. Made to Move: Knowing and Loving God Through Our Bodies is LeBolt’s guide to loving God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength – without making half of them metaphorical. Continue reading
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Revealed, by Angela D. Schaffner
Dr Schaffner’s psychological insights guide her readers through a journey into a Bible which does not lecture, chide, nor always even guide us so much as hold up a mirror to our own lives and relationships, inviting God into those reflections, and recognizing where God’s grace is already at work within us. Continue reading
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Book Review: Outlandish, by Derek Penwell
I appreciated the extended argument for the use of sarcasm as a discipleship tool. Skewering broods of vipers, after all, is quite biblical. Continue reading
Be still and know: meditation on a breathing meditation
After each breath is complete, there is a pause, in which nothing at all happens. In that pause, there is stillness, silence, a full and sufficient absence. Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBreathBook, absence, breath, childbirth, God, J. Dana Trent, meditation
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Book Review: We Pray With Her
“A gifted resource as varied as 70 women can be, while holding the thread in which women find themselves over and again, of sometimes grumpy, sometimes celebratory, oft-times put-upon, regularly resisting and persisting sisterhood.” Continue reading
Book Review: One Breath at a Time, by J. Dana Trent
Dana Trent is a genuine fellow traveler … This is meditation for real life. Continue reading
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Tagged Christian meditation, J. Dana Trent, mediation, One Breath at a Time, prayer, Upper Room Books
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Outside the lines, by Mihee Kim-Kort
I can only imagine the joy and freedom of reading this book if one has never been invited to experiment with the theme and variations of divine love. It could be life-changing. Continue reading
Book review: Denial is my spiritual practice, Hackenberg & Spong
I recommend that you acquire a copy, and keep it close for those moments when, for the sake of faith or sanity, you need to find yourself reflected in the mirror of another soul that has wrestled with life and with God. Continue reading
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