The Ooze sent me a few new books for review and I hope to starting digesting them soon. Definitely a promising list of titles. Here they are in the order I am probably going to read them:
Title: Rapture Ready: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
Author: Daniel Radosh
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Scribner (April 8, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743297709
Title: The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time
Author: Tom Sine
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: IVP Books (March 30, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0830833846
Title: The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community
Authors: Hugh Halter & Matt Smay
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (April 14, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470188979
Title: Oh Shit! It's Jesus: The Relevance of Jesus without all of the Religious Crap
Author: Steve Hughes
Paperback: 134 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (February 22, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419686402
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Looks like a lot of fun there. I'm interested in seeing what you have to say about the first on your list.
Looks like a lot of fun there. I'm interested in seeing what you have to say about the first on your list.
I have started the Rapture Ready. It looks to be the best of the four. It is hilarious and weird and alarming and touching. Also very well written.
I have started the Rapture Ready. It looks to be the best of the four. It is hilarious and weird and alarming and touching. Also very well written.
Good to hear John. I am watching Jesus Camp tonight and after a couple more books I plan to hit that.
Good to hear John. I am watching Jesus Camp tonight and after a couple more books I plan to hit that.
I will eagerly await your review of Jesus Camp. Scary stuff….
I will eagerly await your review of Jesus Camp. Scary stuff….
I reviewed Jesus Camp on my blog a while back. I have the two middle books here, the Tangible Kingdom I picked up because I needed an actual text that used the language of attractional versus incarnational (there is plenty of that on the web but academic cites from the web don't fly so great at Saint Paul). I have just read bits of it. The last book has one of those titles that I like and hate at the same time. If I were drinking coffee yet this AM it would have been on my screen. But at the same time we've been putting up with the spiritual but not religious line since the 60s (at least). It has more to do with a distrust of institutional Christianity than any real way of describing "real" spirituality. It is like the liturgy word – we (evangelicals) like to say we have no liturgy and miss that every week we come together to participate in a liturgy???
I'm also looking forward to your reviews.
I reviewed Jesus Camp on my blog a while back. I have the two middle books here, the Tangible Kingdom I picked up because I needed an actual text that used the language of attractional versus incarnational (there is plenty of that on the web but academic cites from the web don't fly so great at Saint Paul). I have just read bits of it. The last book has one of those titles that I like and hate at the same time. If I were drinking coffee yet this AM it would have been on my screen. But at the same time we've been putting up with the spiritual but not religious line since the 60s (at least). It has more to do with a distrust of institutional Christianity than any real way of describing "real" spirituality. It is like the liturgy word – we (evangelicals) like to say we have no liturgy and miss that every week we come together to participate in a liturgy???
I'm also looking forward to your reviews.
Watching Jesus Camp? Prepare to be mocked. The little girl compares and contrasts her sect's worship practices with those characteristic of yours. She has to be forgiven – she is too young to be anything but innocent.
Best part – knowing more about the Rev. Ted Haggard than anyone in the film does at the time.
I would like your opinion of Ted's cameo – Maybe my memory is failing me, but I remember him as the one person in the film that comes across as an actual, real, full-blooded human being. I almost, but not quite, feel sorry for the guy.
Watching Jesus Camp? Prepare to be mocked. The little girl compares and contrasts her sect's worship practices with those characteristic of yours. She has to be forgiven – she is too young to be anything but innocent.
Best part – knowing more about the Rev. Ted Haggard than anyone in the film does at the time.
I would like your opinion of Ted's cameo – Maybe my memory is failing me, but I remember him as the one person in the film that comes across as an actual, real, full-blooded human being. I almost, but not quite, feel sorry for the guy.