Tag: Book Reviews
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Holy Disunity, by Layton Williams, a book review
“I have spent my entire life deeply loving people with whom I will never agree.”
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Survivor Care: What Religious Professionals Need to Know About Healing Trauma, a book review
I reviewed Christy’s Sims book “Survivor Care: What Religious Professionals Need to Know About Healing Trauma” for the Christian Century. Read the review here. You can order Survivor Care here. (an Amazon affiliate link.)
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Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump, by Angela Decker, a book review
If you want something readable and thought-provoking about how our country elected such a divisive president, this is the book for you.
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DOE, poems of innocence, atrocity, and other female concerns
I’m so thrilled to tell you about a new book of poetry by my good friend, Susan Baller-Shepard. The title is simply: DOE. Many of Susan’s poems feature the nature world, which she loves, but they explore and reveal the human experience, from a uniquely female lens. Susan is a pastor and religion teacher, and…
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Loving and Leaving a Church, by Barbara Melosh, a book review
I’m so glad Barbara said Yes to this book! It’s a memoir of her first year in ordained ministry, which she came to after a career as an academic. She served a Lutheran church in a struggling blue-collar neighborhood in Baltimore. Barbara brings so many lenses to her experience
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Healing Spiritual Wounds, an interview with Carol Howard Merritt
Carol Howard Merritt gently unspools the tightly wound messages of shame and guilt that strangle spirits and cause damage to body, soul and relationships.
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BIRTHED: Finding Grace through Infertility, a book review
Do you know someone who is struggling with infertility? Perhaps this is the story you live, but hide from others. Or perhaps you have a different but similar sort of heartache. Do you know the feelings of repeated loss and grief, which bring a sense of hopelessness? My friend Elizabeth Hagan has just written a…
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There’s a Woman in the Pulpit, a biased book review
I contributed an essay to this anthology written by clergywomen, about our lives in and out of the pulpit.
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Any Day a Beautiful Change, a book review
Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family is a book of personal essays describing the author’s experiences as wife, mother, and minister. The subjects are discrete, but since the essays overlap and build, it’s easy to read them like chapters in a novel. The reader certainly becomes well acquainted with the…
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Olive Kitteredge, by Elizabeth Strout, a book review
Please read this book. It won a Pulitzer for fiction for good reason. Olive Kitteredge is fiction in a unique format: linked short stories. Each story includes the character Olive Kitteredge, a tall older woman, a schoolteacher, the sort you might call a “battleaxe”. And yet I would gladly have read another dozen stories, as…
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Stone Heart, by Diane Glancy, a book review
I became acquainted with the work of Diane Glancy when I lived in Minnesota. She’s an interesting person, with a rather bifurcated background (Cherokee/Baptist) who has been incredibly prolific, producing award-winning poetry, plays, fiction, and non-fiction. I enjoyed hearing Ms. Glancy speak at Festival of Faith & Writing in April, so I picked up, at…