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By Ellen Haroutunian
In book review
Posted February 4, 2019

God Can’t: How to Believe in God and Love After Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils by Thomas Jay Oord [Book Review]

There’s nothing like the words “God Can’t” to stir apoplectic fits among many Christians. The idea of God as omnipotent and sovereign is possibly the most firmly held belief about God in the [...]

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By Ellen Haroutunian
In book review, Bookses!, Healing the Divides, theology, transformation
Posted November 6, 2016

The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation [book review]

Being a serious glutton for all things knowable, I once took a seminary class on the history of the doctrine of the Trinity. It was hours and hours of the immanent Trinity versus the economic [...]

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By Ellen Haroutunian
In book review, Bookses!, church and culture, conversations, generative Christianity, Kingdom, social justice
Posted February 18, 2012

[Book Review] Kissing Fish: Christianity for People Who Don’t Like Christianity

Kissing Fish: Christianity for People Who Don’t Like Christianity By Roger Wolsey Xlibris Corporation It’s important to remember while reading Kissing Fish: Christianity for People Who Don’t Like [...]

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By Ellen Haroutunian
In book review, Bookses!, real church, spirituality, theology
Posted July 15, 2011

[Book Review] Discovering the God Imagination

Discovering the God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole New Christianity By Jonathan Brink 294 pages This is a gutsy book. Author Jonathan Brink dares to suggest a new theory of the atonement. In [...]

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By Ellen Haroutunian
In book review, church and culture, social justice
Posted April 5, 2011

[Book Review] Half The Church by Carolyn Custis James

Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women By Carolyn Custis James Zondervan Publishing 206 pages, including questions for discussion Zondervan gave me a free copy to give away [...]

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By Ellen Haroutunian
In book review, Bookses!, community, conversations, interfaith dialogue, Living Orthodoxy, real church
Posted November 14, 2009

It’s Really All About God – book review (sort of)

It’s Really All About God By Samir Selmanovic Jossey-Bass 286 pages including study questions When recommending an important book one of my favorite profs used to say, “Go, sell all that you have [...]

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By Ellen Haroutunian
In book review, Bookses!
Posted September 8, 2009

Book Review: Fearless by Max Lucado

Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear By Max Lucado Thomas Nelson Publishers 220 pages In these days of economic uncertainty and deep political schisms and conflict, a book on the subject of [...]

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By Ellen Haroutunian
In book review, community, just for fun, search for real church
Posted September 14, 2008

Jesus Laughed: The Redemptive Power of Humor (book review)

Jesus Laughed: The Redemptive Power of Humor by Robert Darden, Senior Editor of The Wittenburg Door Abingdon Press 138 pages, some with cartoons and digressions At first glance I wondered why a [...]

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By Ellen Haroutunian
In book review
Posted August 16, 2008

A Purple State of Mind: Finding Middle Ground in a Divided Culture by Craig Detweiler

This is a timely book that speaks into the problem of extremes, namely, the severe polarization between people in America on a variety of issues, and particularly the divide between Christians [...]

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