Rev. Dave Ketter reviews this new book by Daniel McGregor. You can buy print copies of Holy Dark Places from Energion Direct.
Key quote:
On the whole, this is a solid introduction to the exploration of spiritual suffering. McGregor’s biblical rootedness and overview of historic Christian tradition, even up to the modern era will equip a generation of Christians who are otherwise lost in the midst of brokenness to continue pursuing God and receiving His love.
If your spiritual life needs nourishment, so does your intellectual life. The plain truth of the matter is that God created us as rational beings. Anti-intellectualism is therefore a serious threat to balanced Christianity. “It is fundamental with us,” wrote John Wesley, “that to renounce reason is to renounce religion, that religion and reason go…
The following is copied from a Facebook post by Energion author Hannah May. BIG THEOLOGICAL TOPIC. If you’re not interested, scroll on by. . Over the years I have found myself in different situations as a “teacher.” I do know that as a teacher, we need to teach truth, because otherwise we can lead people…
We are expecting an on-time release of The Jesus Paradigm by David Alan Black. This means that copies will become available around July 20, 2009. Retailers are generally showing later dates, but I expect that they will be pleasantly surprised. Electronic editions will become available around the same time, including Kindle*, Mobipocket*, and Adobe Digital…
Brian LePort has a review of Herold Weiss’s book Creation in Scripture. It’s a nice review along with a summary of the contents. LePort is quite correct in noting that this is not an academic book. That’s not it’s purpose. In fact, it’s purpose is precisely what he recommends it for: Overall it was a…
I notice that people have begun receiving their copies of The Jesus Paradigm by Dr. Davd Alan Black. I will be providing links to the various reviews as they appear. Hopefully this will facilitate discussion. I’ll backtrack any further posts I make to this one in order to make it easier to find discussions. I’ll…
I have been attending the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting which is being held this year in Atlanta. I look forward to attending every year, even though the American Academy of Religion had a Forrest Gump “stupid is as stupid does” moment a few years ago and broke away from the joint conference to…
