book review | Stumbling into Abundance

Serve God, Save the Planet

Aug

2008

It came up recently in a conversation with a friend that it seems everyone is jumping on the environmental bandwagon these days. While as recently as a few years ago things like organic gardening, energy conservation, and sustainable living were relegated to the fringes of society, today they have gone mainstream. This is true not ...

Doing Girlfriend Theology 1

Mar

2008

Over the many years of my education I have encountered and studied feminism and various feminist theologies at different points along the way. Therefore I felt relatively prepared to enter into this world again recently as I began to read Dori Grinenko Baker’s Doing Girlfriend Theology: God-talk with young women. Centered around Baker’s effort to ...

Christianity for the Rest of Us 1

Mar

2008

The cover of my copy of Christianity for the Rest of Us:How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith by Diana Butler Bass proudly proclaims that Marcus Borg said it is “the most important book of the decade about emerging Christianity and the renewal of mainline congregations. ” While I will agree that it was ...