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Book reviews, quotes, and recommendations

Book review: Healing in the New Testament by Pilch

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Israel Galindo

I observe that more congregations are offering “healing services” as part of their ministries. We offered such at my former congregation and every now and then people ask me about it. On those opportunities I stress that it wasn’t a … Continue reading →

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Swamps, Rivers, and Instructional Time

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Israel Galindo

The following is from the book Myths: Fact and Fiction about Teaching and Learning by Israel Galindo. How well do you know fact from fiction? FICTION: The Florida Everglades is an extensive swamp.

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Book review: Beyond the Ordinary by Johnson and Dreitcher

Posted on January 2, 2008 by Israel Galindo

Ben Campbell Johnson & Andrew Dreitcer provide a welcome resource to congregations in practical spirituality in Beyond the Ordinary: Spirituality for Church Leaders (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 168 pages. $16.00. ISBN 0-8028-4773-0). The book’s unique contribution is … Continue reading →

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Book review: Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity

Posted on December 26, 2007 by Israel Galindo

In his controversial classic, Beyond Freedom and Dignity (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), B.F. Skinner proposes a scientific model for the study of human behavior and challenges the traditional theory of man as a purposeful, autonomous being with personality … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Palmer, To Know As We Are Known

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Israel Galindo

In To Know As We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey by Parker J. Palmer (San Francisco, CA: HarperOne, 1993), 160 pp, $13.95 ISBN-10: 0060664517), author, activist, teacher and nationally recognized educational expert, offers a new model for knowing, … Continue reading →

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Readings for Advent and Christmas from Gutenberg

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Israel Galindo

One of my favorite and often-visited websites is that of the Project Gutenberg. There are over 20,000 free books (electronic texts) in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog, a bibliophile’s dream! It’s been a great source of reading material for … Continue reading →

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Book review: Thompson, Family: The Forming Center

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Israel Galindo

The central thesis of Marjorie J Thompson’s Family: The Forming Center. A vision of the role of family in spiritual formation (Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1996), is that, for good or evil, the home is the primary context in which … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Authentic Spirituality by Callen

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Israel Galindo

Against the prevailing but uninformed notion that “I am spiritual, but not religious,” Barry L. Callen (professor of Christian studies at Anderson University, editor of the Wesleyan Theological Journal and founding editor of Anderson University Press) counters that religion and … Continue reading →

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Book review: Bass, Christianity for the Rest of Us

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Israel Galindo

“The most important book of the decade about emerging Christianity and the renewal of mainline congregations.” “This book is so full of good news that I keep it next to my Bible.” Without denying the positive contribution and “good news” … Continue reading →

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Book reviews: Thielen and Langford on worship

Posted on December 3, 2007 by Israel Galindo

For some of us who have been following with interest the “worship wars” of the past decades, there seems to be a tangible waning of the passions that fed the rhetoric. Arguably, the worship wars are over, all that is … Continue reading →

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