Book Review: When Breath Becomes Air
This review was originally written as a seminary assignment for my hospital ministry class.
Book Review: In Honor of Broken Things
When I saw the syllabus for my seminary hospital ministry class, I knew I had to re-read In Honor of Broken Things.
Literature Review: Sex & Love in the Home (McCarthy) and See Me Naked (Frykholm)
Sex and Love in the Home: A Theology of the Household by David Matzko McCarthy lives up to the word “theology.” … See Me Naked: Stories of Sexual Exile In American Christianity by Amy Frykholm lives up to the word “stories” in its title.
Book Review: Simply Good News
“What is the good news that Jesus himself announced and told his followers to announce as well (2)?” This question frames the purpose of the entire book and Wright takes readers along as he works through the question in the context of 21st-century Western Christianity.
Book Review: Professional Sexual Ethics: A Holistic Ministry Approach
The 21 contributors to Professional Sexual Ethics: A Holistic Ministry Approach, edited by Patricia Beattie Jung and Darryl W. Stephens (Fortress, 2013) have diverse biases, but all the essays contribute to the premise that humans, and therefore people who work in ministry, are sexual, so sexuality is part of everything a minister does.
Book Review: Money and Possessions
The problem is looking a poor person in the eye and saying, “Money is a gift from God.” To which they will naturally reply, “So why didn’t God see fit to gift me with enough?” And just like that, the conversation lands in the complex territory of sin, free will, and God’s sovereignty.
Book Review: For the Love of Women
For the Love of Women by Dorothy Littell Greco (2025) is an accessible presentation on how misogyny is alive and well throughout US culture. With 39 pages of end-note citations, this book is not unsubstantiated opinion.
Book Review: The Justice of Jesus
The first sentence of the first page of the Introduction is “This social justice stuff isn’t Christian, it’s Marxist” (11). Thomas spends the remainder of the book demonstrating how that view is uninformed, but his tone is never accusatory.
Book Review: The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Even though Cone was a Black theologian, the intended audience of The Cross and the Lynching Tree is primarily white people in the US.