Top Books for 2007 (that I actually read)

Posted on December 13, 2007

Here is a sundry list of things I read that made a particular impression on me this year. They were not all published this year. They are not necessarily my favorites, and they include fiction, non-fiction, previously read, etc. In no particular order…

Books:

  1. Falling Man, Don DeLillo.
  2. Harrison Bergeron, Curt Vonnegut
  3. Central Themes in Biblical Theology, ed. Hafemann & House
  4. Seeing Through Cynicism, Dick Keyes
  5. Total Church, Chester & Timmis
  6. Paul: A Fresh Perspective, N. T. Wright
  7. n + 1. a twice-yearly print journal of politics, literature, and culture.
  8. How Children Raise Parents, Dan Allender.
  9. The Moral Vision of the New Testament, Richard Hays
  10. Disciples of All Nations, Lamin Sanneh

Articles:

  1. “Converts or Proselytes?: The Crisis Over Conversion in the Early Church,” Andrew Walls IBMR 28
  2. “Anaesthetic Ideology,” Mark Greif n+1 vol. 5
  3. “Things I Wish I Had Known When I Planted My Church,” Next Wave

Organic Church Movements Conference

Posted on December 11, 2007

The Organic Church Movements Conference with Neil Cole and Alan Hirsch will be held next in Ontario on Feb 8-10. Here are a few of the workshops:

  •  Organic Church Urban Strategies PaTransition or Transfusion: Conventional Churches Moving to Organic ChurchCoaching Organic Church Leaders
          • Organic Church and the tough Question of the Gay Community
          • From the Campus to the Marketplace: Organic Student led Movements Bridge into the Workforce
          • Church planting Movements in a Postmodern Context

New Mars Hill Audio

Posted on December 11, 2007

Here is the line-up for the newest installment of Mars Hill Audio Journal (88):

Diana Pavlac Glyer, on how the members of The
Inklings (C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield,
etc.) influenced each other’s thinking and writing

Michael J. Lewis, on what the Body Worlds exhibits
assembled by Günther von Hagens reveal about our
attitudes toward human nature

Steve Talbott, on how the aims of education are
distracted by technology

Darryl Tippins, on why we sing

Everett Ferguson, on the place of music in the Early
Church

Alexander Lingas, on the tradition of music in the
Eastern churches

Calvin Stapert, on the nature of meaning in music