Posted in Books, Resources, Social Justice, Women, tagged gender injustice, prayer on July 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Guide to prayer addressing global issues of gender-based injustice. I just started this this morning, and it is powerful and very difficult to read… It goes through issues such as abortion, child prositution, domestic violence, eating disorders, female laborers, incest, and pornagraphy. (Like I said, difficult to read!)
Posted in Bible Studies, Books, Social Justice, Spiritual Formation, tagged bible studies, habakuk, injustice on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I just started this study on Habakuk by my favorite author, Jan Johnson. It’s about how Habakuk dealt with all the injustice and wickedness he saw. Jan Johnson draws some great parallels regarding how to live in a world full of violence, injustice, and chaos. It’s a free download!
From the intro:
“What’s this world coming to?” [...]
Posted in Books, Children's Books, tagged Children's Books, multicultural books on July 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Read children’s books online at ICDL. This site allows you to search for books by country and includes books from many cultures. I even found about 10 books that you can read online from SRI LANKA!!! (This NEVER happens outside of Sri Lanka itself…) Definitely a must-visit for those with children…
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Perspectives, tagged book review, Spiritual Disciplines on July 12, 2008 | No Comments »
(In addition to cross-cultural relationships, another side interest of mine is spiritual formation. I wrote this for some other sites and thought I’d include it here.)
By Tricia McCary Rhodes, 2008. Intervarsity Press.
While I’m an enthusiastic fan of the spiritual formation movement, one of my hang-ups with it is the lack of space in my [...]
Posted in Biracial Children, Books, Culture/Race Relations, Transracial Adoption, tagged adoption, Books, race on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Linda posted her book info on a comment on TLB… She’s a fiction writer who’s authored two books, The Making of Isaac Hunt and Loving Cee Cee Johnson. They look like compelling reads - if you’re a fan of fiction, check out her books here.
Posted in Books, Church, Cross-Cultural Church, Culture/Race Relations, Mosaic, Perspectives, Websites, tagged Race relations, evangelicals on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Reconciliation Blog is maintained by author Edward Gilbreath. I just read his book, Reconciliation Blues, (and will soon post a review). It was an excellent, compelling, and honest perspective on race relations in the evangelical church.
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Culture/Race Relations, Mosaic, tagged racial reconciliation, book review on July 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve given up on racial reconciliation quite a few times. The first time was shortly after I discovered it due to my inability to sleep peacefully as I grappled with my newfound understanding of ethnocentrism. The second was when my Asian American husband and I left the segregated and monocultural Midwest for the more integrated [...]
Posted in Books, Community, Monasticism, Social Justice, tagged New Monasticism, Shane Claiborne on June 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Subtitle: living as an ordinary radical by Shane Claiborne.
I’m currently reading this book and find it’s premise fascinating. Shane is part of a monastic community in Philadelphia. He explores many ideas of how to love the people around us through our choices. He also spends a fair amount of time examining how [...]
Posted in Books, Monasticism, tagged New Monasticism on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chris Heuertz is the director of Word Made Flesh, a missions organization that lives and works among the poor. The subtitle of this book is “Learning to See God in a Broken World.”
Intervarsity Press’s summary:
Chris Heuertz believes that any true path to spiritual sight ought to be simple.
While he’s not a contemplative and hardly a [...]
Posted in Books, tagged Spiritual Disciplines on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Looks interesting! from Intervarsity Press:
The Christian life is a journey not just spiritually but also physically and experientially. As global travel becomes more accessible, new opportunities arise for these journeys to be spiritually significant. You may find yourself in historic places where Christian faith shaped entire civilizations. And you may realize that you too are [...]
