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Looking for something to read this summer? What follows is a list of books I have recently read, and loved.

Let’s start with an older book: “The Seven Story Mountain,” by Thomas Merton. 

 

 

 

Editor, The Christian Citizen
24 July 2019
22 July 2019
Chasing equality—remembering the first moon landing while reclaiming the history that racism and sexism obscured
Editor, The Christian Citizen
19 July 2019
The limits of toleration: China’s crackdown on religion
Editor, The Christian Citizen
15 July 2019
Attend at your own risk: Welcoming the (food allergic) children in His name
Executive Director, ABHMS
10 July 2019
No War With Iran Statement
8 July 2019
Pray for the spiders
Editor, The Christian Citizen
5 July 2019
Motorcycles, tribalism and America – What I learned riding in Rolling Thunder.
Editor, The Christian Citizen
3 July 2019
What is the sense of our small effort?
Editor, The Christian Citizen
1 July 2019
Having a mission in life
28 June 2019
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s “Reconstruction: America after the Civil War” (Review)
26 June 2019
4 things leaders do to prepare churches, institutions and organizations for a future beyond them
24 June 2019
Resilient partners, loyal servants: What I saw in a gathering of Christian leaders
Editor, The Christian Citizen
21 June 2019
The freedom to worship without fear
Editor, The Christian Citizen
19 June 2019
Protecting the life of the born
17 June 2019
What I learned for ministry from my father
Editor, The Christian Citizen
7 June 2019
Breaking the silence of mental illness
Editor, The Christian Citizen
5 June 2019
The ministry of multiplication – equipping others for work in God’s service.
Editor, The Christian Citizen
3 June 2019
Reclaiming the historic understanding of religious liberty for all
Editor, The Christian Citizen
31 May 2019
Love your neighbor, learn their language
Editor, The Christian Citizen
29 May 2019
The moral injury of a Baptist accidental killer
Editor, The Christian Citizen
24 May 2019
Blessed are the peacemakers, but what about the troublemakers?
Editor, The Christian Citizen
22 May 2019
The agitation for intentionality—gaining meaning in a world filled with noise and confusion
20 May 2019
Filters
Editor, The Christian Citizen
17 May 2019
Just when is the light supposed to break forth like the dawn?
Director, Discipleship Ministries, ABHMS
15 May 2019
Sinners in the hands of a loving God: reflections on sin and redemption
Editor, The Christian Citizen
13 May 2019
Revive us again
Editor, The Christian Citizen
10 May 2019
Let us now praise famous (and not so famous) women
8 May 2019
Does your church suffer from RCS – Recreational Complaint Syndrome?
6 May 2019
The power of patriarchy, abuse, and gaslighting in the Gospels and Captain Marvel
Editor, The Christian Citizen
3 May 2019
A new patriotism amid growing challenges and heightened emotions
Editor, The Christian Citizen
1 May 2019
Authentically me and authentically you: Why religious liberty and LGBT rights are not so different
Editor, The Christian Citizen
29 April 2019
Welcoming new mothers and making space for postpartum mood disorders in our churches
Director, Discipleship Ministries, ABHMS
26 April 2019
Grace at the airport
25 April 2019
Six ways to connect across difference
22 April 2019
Privilege, power, and the myth of “all things equal”
19 April 2019
What Christians get wrong about Kingdom theology
Editor, The Christian Citizen
18 April 2019
Executive Order 9066: In the dark days of WWII, fear translates to injustice of internment for Japanese Americans
17 April 2019
Learning from fiction
Editor, The Christian Citizen
16 April 2019
The day they hid the Liberty Bell
Editor, The Christian Citizen
15 April 2019
Can you let go?
Editor, The Christian Citizen
12 April 2019
American Baptist delegation visits Myanmar—an interview with A. Roy Medley, general secretary emeritus, American Baptist Churches USA
11 April 2019
Apology and atonement, not politics as usual
10 April 2019
“Who is my neighbor?”
Clean water for Haiti: A partnership between First Baptist Church, Cadillac and First Baptist Church, Cap Haïtien
Abraham Lincoln’s letter to the American Baptist Home Mission Society

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