The Englewood Review of Books. Chris is co-author of the award-winning book Slow Church (2014), author of Reading for the Common Good (2016), and is presently finishing a book manuscript with the working title, Conversational Bodies: A Field Guide for the Journey Toward Belonging.">
Sarah Ruden is not a biblical scholar, but a Quaker and an expert on ancient languages who has been translating portions of Scripture from Hebrew and Greek.
As the summer starts to wind down, you may be looking for a way to…
When we think about the role of reading in our spiritual formation, we generally think…
I’ve always been intrigued that the word “disciple” comes from origins that meant “learner.” Our…
Instagram. TikTok. Facebook. YouTube. So many media platforms via for our attention these days. While…
Over the last decade, many people in the publishing world have been wringing their hands…
Our fast-paced, technology-driven culture has changed the nature of reading. We get our news from…
I grew up in the 1980s, when the Christian music industry was still in its…
With the emergence of social media and e-books over the last decade, the publishing industry…
Summer is in full swing. It’s that wonderful time of year when many of us…
The summer season is right around the corner, which means it’s time to think about…
I grew up in the 1980s, when the Christian music industry was still in its…
As we do each year, we’ve gathered a list of the best book published from…
It has been said that there is no end to the making of books (Ecclesiastes…
Books make the perfect Christmas gift. They generally are reasonably priced, and once read they…
A new offshoot of the Occupy Movement is taking off—and it’s buying up and canceling people’s debt for pennies on the dollar. The Rolling Jubilee’s lavish forgiveness of debt is dazzling newscasters and the public, and certainly has spiritual echoes. But after the Rolling Jubilee has done its good work, the question remains: Will forgiven debtors shoulder the responsibility to stay out of the red in the future, and extend the same generosity given them to others?
It’s been a week since the election was over, and I’ve seen a wide range…
The bone-dry summer has thrown more than half of all U.S. counties into emergency, but it’s not just farmers who are being affected. We will all be feeling the drought in food prices and water conservation mandates soon enough. The Bible is no stranger to agricultures ups and downs, and it has a very clear encouragement for how to act and pray during times of deep drought.
The first and most familiar of the so-called Slow Movements was the Slow Food movement…