The hard work of our WJK authors pays off! Here are just a few mentions of much-deserved notice they have received over the last few months:
Losers, Loners, and Rebels: The Spiritual Struggles of Boys, written by Robert C. Dykstra, Allan Hugh Cole Jr., and Donald Capps, received a stellar review in the September/October 2007 issue of Foreword. The reviewer notes, “While it should be required reading for any spiritual teacher or counselor, Losers, Loners, and Rebels is necessary for anyone who interacts with adolescent boys. . . . [T]he book will help [parents] reconnect to their youth as well as guide their own sons through the murky waters of adolescence.”
Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief, the newest book from the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, was featured in a recent issue of The Living Church. In it, Rev. Patrick Gahan observes the “lyrical” and “humanistic” quality of Williams’s work, which “makes it all the more alluring for the reader—even when discussing those Christian doctrines that tend to make us moderns raise our eyebrows.”
The July/August 2007 issue of Theology featured a review of Ellen Davis’s Wondrous Depth, remarking that “[p]reachers who feel the constraints of the Lectionary a burden will find useful ways of preaching from the text in this book.” The book was also featured in the Summer 2007 issue of Homiletic, where the four essays included in the book are called “masterpieces of English literature with the beauty of its language” and Davis’s sermons are “brilliant works of art with a synthesis between exegetical methods and aesthetic sensibility.”
Greg Garrett appeared on XM Radio’s The Bob Edwards Show to discuss The Gospel according to Hollywood on September 21, 2007. His book also received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was “highly recommended” by Library Journal.
This past May, The Christian Century described the three volumes of Gary Dorrien’s The Making of American Liberal Theology as “a magnificent scholarly accomplishment. . . . [Dorrien] has given us clear, fair accounts of all the important, and most of the semi-important, writers within the tradition he is examining.”
James Crossley’s Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (26–50 CE) was described by the Review of Biblical Literature as having “much to benefit New Testament scholars, especially those with minimal knowledge of Jewish law and rabbinic teaching. Crossley’s knowledge in this area is impressive indeed.”
A full-page feature review appeared in the September/October 2007 issue of Books & Culture for Virginia Stem Owens’s Caring for Mother: A Daughter’s Long Goodbye, in which Owens is praised for being “unfailingly honest” and shining “a light on the alien land that spreads out before many adult children.”
Anna Carter Florence’s Preaching as Testimony and Mike Graves’s The Fully Alive Preacher were featured together in the September 18, 2007, issue of Christian Century: “Both Florence and Graves go beyond lament, criticism, and castigation. Both support preachers by offering not only deep analysis of the life-threatening occlusions of our hearts but also life-changing therapies.”
This past July, Mark Pinsky appeared on the PBS show Religion & Ethics Newsweekly to discuss his popular book The Gospel according to The Simpsons: Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition. You can read the interview by clicking here.
Losers, Loners, and Rebels: The Spiritual Struggles of Boys, written by Robert C. Dykstra, Allan Hugh Cole Jr., and Donald Capps, received a stellar review in the September/October 2007 issue of Foreword. The reviewer notes, “While it should be required reading for any spiritual teacher or counselor, Losers, Loners, and Rebels is necessary for anyone who interacts with adolescent boys. . . . [T]he book will help [parents] reconnect to their youth as well as guide their own sons through the murky waters of adolescence.”
Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief, the newest book from the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, was featured in a recent issue of The Living Church. In it, Rev. Patrick Gahan observes the “lyrical” and “humanistic” quality of Williams’s work, which “makes it all the more alluring for the reader—even when discussing those Christian doctrines that tend to make us moderns raise our eyebrows.”
The July/August 2007 issue of Theology featured a review of Ellen Davis’s Wondrous Depth, remarking that “[p]reachers who feel the constraints of the Lectionary a burden will find useful ways of preaching from the text in this book.” The book was also featured in the Summer 2007 issue of Homiletic, where the four essays included in the book are called “masterpieces of English literature with the beauty of its language” and Davis’s sermons are “brilliant works of art with a synthesis between exegetical methods and aesthetic sensibility.”
Greg Garrett appeared on XM Radio’s The Bob Edwards Show to discuss The Gospel according to Hollywood on September 21, 2007. His book also received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was “highly recommended” by Library Journal.
This past May, The Christian Century described the three volumes of Gary Dorrien’s The Making of American Liberal Theology as “a magnificent scholarly accomplishment. . . . [Dorrien] has given us clear, fair accounts of all the important, and most of the semi-important, writers within the tradition he is examining.”
James Crossley’s Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (26–50 CE) was described by the Review of Biblical Literature as having “much to benefit New Testament scholars, especially those with minimal knowledge of Jewish law and rabbinic teaching. Crossley’s knowledge in this area is impressive indeed.”
A full-page feature review appeared in the September/October 2007 issue of Books & Culture for Virginia Stem Owens’s Caring for Mother: A Daughter’s Long Goodbye, in which Owens is praised for being “unfailingly honest” and shining “a light on the alien land that spreads out before many adult children.”
Anna Carter Florence’s Preaching as Testimony and Mike Graves’s The Fully Alive Preacher were featured together in the September 18, 2007, issue of Christian Century: “Both Florence and Graves go beyond lament, criticism, and castigation. Both support preachers by offering not only deep analysis of the life-threatening occlusions of our hearts but also life-changing therapies.”
This past July, Mark Pinsky appeared on the PBS show Religion & Ethics Newsweekly to discuss his popular book The Gospel according to The Simpsons: Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition. You can read the interview by clicking