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Fleming Rutledge would like a word…from God
For all the space it takes up in our worship services, the sermon as an object of critical study has suffered from criminal neglect. Enter Fleming Rutledge. →
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#10 – Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson – 2024 Best Reads
We have been reading and, as we’ve done since 2017, we’re ready to spill some tea on the 2024 reading campaign. →
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Esau McCaulley’s Unexpected Journey
You come out of this memoir feeling McCaulley’s hard-won wisdom, openness, and faith. His difficult, often-absent, father, his resilient mother, his racially-intolerant in-laws, and his big, loving Alabama family all find their place in McCaulley’s heart. →
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Fleming Rutledge Upends Another Season
Alongside Dry January, a preacher might offer a sermon series on ‘6 Ways to Up Your Spiritual Game in 2024.’ I don’t even know what that means, but it sounds…productive. Inconveniently for such well-intentioned attempts to enter the marketplace of resolutions, the calendar of the Christian year gives us Epiphany, an obscure season that puts… →
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#4 – The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky – Best Reads of 2023
Yeah, this Dostoevsky guy has got potential. →
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#6 – I, Julian by Claire Gilbert – Best Reads of 2023
The writing is simple and elegant. The characters illustrative of the times without being preachy. And the post-pandemic world Gilbert evokes is eerily similar to our own. →
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Love in a Small Cell: Claire Gilbert Gives Voice to Julian of Norwich
Julian’s faith is rich and deep, never skirting past the graveyards of this world, but opening up the nature of a loving God. →
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#2 — No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler — 2021 Best Reads
To read Kate Bowler in her latest book, No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear), is like hearing from the dead. As she did in her last book, Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Told), Bowler takes a blow torch to received pieties when intense suffering comes →
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#6–The Making of Biblical Womanhood–2021 Best Reads
The 6th book on our Top Ten list is Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood. Barr got a lot of buzz for this book, making her perhaps the country’s most popular medieval historian. Barr also happens to be an evangelical Christian trying to help her branch of the Christian church move out of →
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