Download PDF: RV Anthony Preaching at the Crossroads By David Lose Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013. 112 pages. $19.00 The sense that preaching is in crisis has long shaped the homiletician’s work. The promise of refined technique has been the frequent response.
Download PDF: RV Dani Invasion of the Dead By Brian K. Blount Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014. 156 pages. $16.00. Can one engage pop culture’s literary and cinematic renditions of zombie invasions, vampire slayings, and devastating natural disasters with the
Download PDF: RV Best A Living Tradition By David Pitt, Stefanos Alexopoulos, and Christian McConnell (editors) Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2012. 272 pages. $29.95. In A Living Tradition, David Pitt, Stefanos Alexopoulos, and Christian McConnell have brought together a diverse group of
Download PDF: RV Sivakumar Things By Dick Houtman and Brigit Meyer (Editors) New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. 482 pages. $31.50 Recent volumes on materiality and material culture have outlined its genealogy through philosophical (particularly phenomenological) enquiry upon human perception and
Download PDF: RV Krone Religion Food and Eating Edited By Benjamin E. Zeller, Marie W. Dallam, Reid L. Neilson, & Nora L. Rubel New York: Columbia University Press 2014. 336 pages. $35.00. Food is inextricable from religion. Despite this fact, relatively
Download PDF: RV King Sensational Devotion By Jill Stevenson Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. 328 pages. $50.00. Reading Jill Stevenson’s rich descriptions of evangelical piety and performance in Sensational Devotion is not unlike having dinner for the first time with the
Download PDF: Pape, Talking about money ABSTRACT The assumption has been that to preach on a given topic from the Synoptic Gospels, the preacher should locate a passage in which Jesus teaches prescriptively on the subject, or something like it. Preaching
Download PDF: RV Hoelle, Hanukkah in America By Dianne Ashton New York: New York University Press, 2013. 343 pages. $29.95. Hanukkah is one of the least important festivals in the Jewish religious calendar, yet it is one of the two holidays celebrated
Download PDF: RV Green, Redeeming a Prison Society By Amy Levad Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2014. 233 pages. $39.00. The United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. Disproportionately incarcerating African Americans, Latinos, and the
Download PDF: RV Copeland, Blessed are the Consumers By Sallie McFague Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013. 225 pages. $24. In Blessed Are the Consumers, Sallie McFague takes up the challenge that the “twin planetary crisis of climate change and unjust financial distribution”
Download PDF: Osinski, Archive Anemnesis Eucharistic Abstract The purpose and goal of the liturgy and of those participating in it is making space. Space for welcome, for hospitality, for movement, for freedom, for lament, for exultation. Space for absence, certainly; space
In this alt.worship installment, the curators create a space for people to (de)construct Church. The experience is comprised of two discursive “moves” that invite participants to explore themselves as individuals and as participants in a system called “Church.” We will
Download PDF: RV Grace, Be Still and Know By Norris J. Chumley Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014. 156 pages. $29.00. “If ever there was a need for peace, the time is now” (79). Simultaneous to the writing of this book, the author
Download PDF: Myers, Beyond Border Raids In her recent book, Christian Theology in Practice: Discovering a Discipline, Bonnie Miller-McLemore presents a helpful and compelling case for a more inclusive theology that draws explicitly from the disciplines of practical theology. She argues
Download PDF: RV Yun, Caring Liturgies By Susan Marie Smith Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012. 151 pages. $18.00 I wish this volume had been published earlier. As a pastoral caregiver and careseeker, I have known the need to create rituals for moments
Download PDF: RV Neal, Preaching After God By Phil Snider Eugene: Cascade Books, 2012. 227 pages. $20.80 Preaching After God begins with a true story about a roomful of Christian preachers who cannot come up with a concrete instance of God’s
Download PDF: RV Brooks, Staging Faith By Craig Prentiss New York: New York University Press, 2013. 167 pages. $25.00 Craig R. Prentiss offers a refreshing text exploring the intersection of religion and artistic production in African American culture. Operating under the
Download PDF: Helsel, Definitional Ceremonies Abstract Therapeutic case conferences often take place without clients’ full knowledge and thus disempower them. By contrast, narrative therapy’s definitional ceremonies-drawn from the work of anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff-heighten transparency. The article offers an example of the