Book Review: Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coalfields

So Chris Smith over at the Englewood Review of Books was kind enough to give me a review copy of Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coalfields: Subject to Dust. My review is the featured review in this week’s edition.
Historians have an understandable tendency to focus on “important” people and events leaving the day-in, day-out [...]

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A Black Theology of Liberation

This is my reflection upon A Black Theology of Liberation by James Cone. I am fully aware that this post might cause controversy. If you feel compelled to comment about how much you disagree, then please give an argument. Comments that say, in effect, “Cone is a reverse racist” with no grounds will be deleted.
James [...]

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Brief Review: A Pedagogy For Liberation

The importance of education in a society can hardly be overstated. Plato wrote that the “direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” The same could be said of a society. Those who educate in a society determine what that society will be in the future.
Those who control education (the “elites”) have [...]

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New Hauerwas

I just read that Hauerwas is releasing yet another book. It looks terrific. It will be out in July.

From the book:

"I have increasingly come to the recognition that one of the most satisfying contexts for doing the work of theology is in sermons. That should not be surprising because throughout Christian history, at least until [...]

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Brief Review: Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism

Jacques Dupuis. Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism, (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1999).

The present global context has interrupted the abstract hypothesizing on the Divine that has been so prevalent in Christian theology. Through science and technology we have made of the world a neighborhood. No longer can the title “other” be relegated to an invisible minority. Christian [...]

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Books for Learnin’

I am in my second semester of seminary at Emmanuel School of Religion. 
Here are the books for my second semester. (click for a bigger picture)

From left to right:
Course: Old Testament Introduction
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible – John Collins
Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel – Wilda Gafney
Challenging Prophetic Metaphor – Julia O'Brien

Course: The Nature [...]

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Englewood Book Review

I wanted to let everyone know about a great new book review blog run by a friend of mine, Chris Smith. Chris has been writing and editing book reviews for a long time that he has been sending out in emails. Now he has the reviews up online and available for anyone to read. They review some [...]

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Crossing KCU

A friend of mine, Adam Coffman (who runs The Basmati House Review) recently finished a book about his experiences at Kentucky Christian University. It is quite interesting to me, of course, because my parents taught at KCC (before it was a university) for most of my life. Adam really hits the nail on the head [...]

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Torture And Eucharist: A Review

William Cavanaugh
Torture and Eucharist
(Blackwell Publishing, 1998) 304 pages.

This book is a true theological masterpiece. My thinking about ecclesiology, politics, and the Eucharist have been irreversibly changed for the better. 

William Cavanaugh’s dissertation takes the form of a historical case study of the Roman Catholic Church in Chile during the Pinochet regime. He begins by dicussing how [...]

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Surprised by Hope: A review

N. T. Wright
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
New York: HarperOne, 2008. 332 pages.
I remember reading through N. T. Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God last spring and thinking about how critical it is to the Church today to have a revitalization of her understanding of [...]

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