You Can Be Very Serious AND Funny (Frank Laubach)
Frank Laubach (1884-1970) worked all over the world, with considerable positive impact. He was...
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Category: Book Reviews – Book Studies
Evangelicalism is Broken. Do They Know? Do They Care? (review of Labberton’s “Still Evangelical?”)
Many of them see no crisis, judging from 5 of the 12 articles in Mark Labbertons’s recent valuable...
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Together in Flexible Resistance. Naomi Klein Has Hope
A deeply diverse and insistently forward-looking campaign … could well prove unbeatable.A Strong...
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Together – Flexible Solidarity, Decentralized Resistance (#1) (Chris Moore-Backman)
What If Trump Is Still President? (He is.)Combative by nature, happier in a fight, the president...
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Who’s More Moral, the Rich or the Poor? What Traits Go With Each Group? (John Ruskin)
That’s not an easy question.The Bible criticizes the wealthy, sometimes individually,...
Read MoreDoes Prayer “Work”? “Scientific & Pastoral Perspectives…”
Here’s a review of another book on prayer as promised a couple of days ago. [Here’s a more recent review of a book on prayer – P T Forsyth’s Soul of Prayer] My second acquisition at Pastors’ Seminar...
Read MoreWho Are More Moral – the Rich or the Poor? Ruskin: Unto This Last
That’s not an easy question to answer. The Bible criticizes the wealthy, sometimes individually, sometimes for specific behaviors, sometimes even as a group. But it also has harsh words for some of the poor, sometimes...
Read MoreEconomics, the Bible, Galbraith, Sen, and Economics IS ETHICS!
My cousin in soCal was cleaning out old emails and sent me this one I sent her a year ago. I still like it. “I’m wading through “Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay”, by James K Galbraith (econ...
Read MoreShould Christians Work Against Poverty? This Muslim Thinks So.
“All state organizations that provide free or subsidized services for the poor could be done away with.” “There would be no begging in the streets.” “Nobody would be at the mercy of anybody else,...
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