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Friday, July 30, 2010

Summer Reading

Summer is a good time to read!  Though it has been difficult to find the time, I have been able to focus on the following books:

"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor by Geoffrey Robinson.  I am reviewing this book for Missiology.  Not the most uplifting, to be sure, but insightful with respect to the ways societies can move toward sanctioning and carrying out mass violence.  

"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor

Christianity & Contemporary Politics by Luke Bretherton of King's College.  After reading Bretherton's first book Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness amid Moral Diversity, I wanted to see what Bretherton would say in this volume.  Needless to say, I have not been disappointed.  I highly recommend it.  Bretherton needs to be read on this side of the Atlantic by as many people as possible.

Hospitality as HolinessChristianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilites of Faithful Witness


Longing for Spring: A New Vision for Wesleyan Community by Elaine Heath and Scott Kisker.  This book is part of the New Monastic Library Series.  Heath and Kisker open up a lively conversation with our Wesleyan heritage, missional church, and new monastic movements. 

Longing for Spring: A New Vision for Wesleyan Community [New Monastic Library series] (New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship)


Wesley and the People Called Methodists by Richard Heitzenrater.  It is always good to re-read the classics!

Wesley and the People Called Methodists

Beyond Maintenance to Mission: A Theology of the Congregation by Craig Nessan.  I am reviewing this book for Reviews in Religion & Theology.  Nessan takes a very practical approach to congregational life arguing that mission flows out of worship.  Worship is the identity-shaping practice that allows the church to move into God's mission in the world.

Beyond Maintenance to Mission: A Theology of the Congregation

Enjoy the summer! 

Andy Kinsey

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