Book Review: The Gospel People Don’t Want to Hear: Preaching Challenging Messages
Book Reviews | January 22, 2023
By Laura Siriani The provocative title of Lisa Cressman’s book was intriguing for this deacon. Today, more than ever, we preachers are challenged to balance both courageous preaching and a…
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Book Review: Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit
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By Sylvia Sweeney Few can dispute human beings are on the cusp of a new age the likes of which the world has never seen before. As a result, it…
Book Review: Toward an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: An Intersectional Anthology
Book Reviews | September 9, 2022
By Thomas Ni Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: An Intersectional Anthology. Gale Yee. Eugene, OR, Cascade Books: 2021. $27.00. Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: An Intersectional Anthology by…
Book Review: A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church
Book Reviews | September 8, 2022
By Kate Spelman A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church. Wilda C. Gafney. New York, Church Publishing: 2021. $36.95. Wilda C. Gafney’s monumental, multi-volume A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole…
The Beatitudes through the Ages
Book Reviews | January 15, 2022
The Beatitudes, I wrote in Preaching Truth in the Age of Alternative Facts (Abingdon Press, 2018), has become a political document. Nothing like “Blessed are the poor in spirit” to…