reviews

Spiritual Discernment for Groups and Communities Author: Stephanie A. Hull After attending a Listening Hearts group retreat for discernment, I picked up the first book written by this ministry, Discerning Call in Community. The book was deeply spiritual, yet approachable. It represented ideas and practices in simple terms that stirred the spirit and opened my eyes to aspects of God and my relationship with Him and fellow Christians. Tending toward the hermit, the book truly opened my eyes to the necessity of community and the ways in which God speaks through others and through the events within our lives.  I [...]

"For Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee." Author: St. Augustine The Confessions of St. Augustine (Latin: Confessiones) is the first autobiographic book known in the western world and follows. St. Augustine of Hippo as he enumerates on his sinful youth and gradual, painful search for the truth among various different religions, philosophies, and practices. Written in Latin between 397 and 400 AD, Augustine comes just two centuries after Christian persecution, yet his voice and the issues of his day resound with a modern quality; in the days where watching bloody [...]

Christ is Trending on Twitter! Author: Scott Pinsker Full disclosure: I have absolutely no religious affiliation. More than that – I’m a religion slacker. I know the basics about most of the major world religions, but the details of none. I’m not troubled by this willful ignorance (though pardon me if I blaspheme - it isn't intentional), but it does make the likelihood of me reading a book about the second coming rather remote. But never say never, for that is exactly what I have done, in the form of Scott Pinsker’s The Second Coming: A Love Story.  The Second [...]