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Centered-Set Church by Mark Baker

Centered-Set Church by Mark Baker

I have begun reading a book by Mark Baker called Centered-Set Church: Discipleship and Community Without Judgmentalism. If you follow along here, you know that centred-set churches are a topic I am passionate about. I heard about the book a while ago but was reminded...
A Micro.Book Review: A New Way to Look at a Troubling Passage

A Micro.Book Review: A New Way to Look at a Troubling Passage

I read this book on Perlego after hearing Carmen Imes and Tim Mackie discuss it on an episode of the Bible Project Podcast. Abraham’s Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God (affiliate link). There are so many stories in...
Learning to Love Biographies

Learning to Love Biographies

“I don’t like biographies.” I’ve said that on numerous occasions. I love to read, but generally I love to read a few specific genres. For non-fiction that would include books on leadership (general and church), theology, and behavioural economics. For fiction (which I...
3 of the Most Important Books I’ve Read

3 of the Most Important Books I’ve Read

About a week ago, a few of us here were going through one of those lists of books with the heading, “The BBC thinks you’ve only read 6 of these books.” We did pretty well (If you could count, ‘I’ve seen the movie, I would have done much better). I hit 16,...

Was it for This? – a brief review

As someone who is spending much of this next year trying to learn about all things Ireland, I found Irish Times columnist John Waters’ new book, Was It For This? Why Ireland Lost the Plot, a fascinating read. While he deals with Ireland over the past 100+ years,...

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If you know me, you know that I love to read. As a kid, it started with comic books (The Justice Society of America was my favorite), and The Chronicles of Narnia, and reached its height when I found a wife who reads even more than I do! (our kids had no...