This month at the Patheos Book Club, we’re talking about  the new book American Dream 2.0: A Christian Way Out of the Great Recession, by author and pastor Frank A. Thomas.  In the book, Dr. Thomas argues that we need a new American Dream, one that aligns with Jesus’ vision of the Kingdom of God and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of the “Beloved Community.” Dr. Thomas spoke with us about the inspiration for his book, the significance of the... Read more

In the new book, inSignificant, Chris Travis describes what a failure he came to be and claims it was the most significant time in his life, a time he wouldn’t have missed for anything. Read more

So here's the question: What's stopping you from doing the most important thing you'll do today? Read more

By John Mark Reynolds A fat nation consumes fattening food to protest libertine sexual morality while libertines bluster about forcing private business to their views. If you don’t get this, then read Os Guinness’ new book A Free People’s Suicide. He is persuasive in his argument that the American Republic faces a crisis that could end in its decline. This brief book states that the American Founders built on a “golden triangle” of freedom: freedom, virtue, and faith. Each value... Read more

This month in the Patheos Book Club, we’re hosting a conversation on an inspiring new book, The Awakening of Hope: Why We Practice a Common Faith, by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. Jonathan is an author, speaker, church leader and “new monastic,” living in community with his family and a dozen other folk in Durham, NC. Jonathan has been blogging about and documenting the new monastic movement for nearly a decade now, and this new book represents a culmination of his thinking on the awakenings that... Read more

"The Awakening of Hope" is a corrective to our belief-only Christianity. Jonathan reminds us of the holy habits that have marked Christians for centuries. He dusts off these classic spiritual disciplines and polishes them up for a new generation. Read more

[This post is part of a conversation on Os Guinness’ new book A Free People’s Suicide: Sustaining Freedom and the American Future, now featured at the Patheos Book Club.] Os Guinness clearly recognizes that the USA is at an impasse.  Consumerism, self-interest, incivility, greed, and relativism – not to mention a loss of the meaning and responsibilities of citizenship – have placed the republic in jeopardy.  Guinness is even-handed in his critique of both the left and right as sources... Read more

By John Fea About twenty years ago Os Guinness published The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith.  In that book, written in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Guinness warned against the temptation of letting our international triumph blind us to the moral and cultural decay occurring at home.  He argued that America was facing “its own time of reckoning, an hour of truth that will not be delayed.” ... Read more

Does freedom just go on indefinitely? Os Guinness, in his new book "A Free People's Suicide," answers “no”; freedom is neither automatic nor self-maintaining. And very few people currently enjoying American freedom seriously think about that. How do free people remain free? Read more

I must admit that I struggle with using the word “miracle” to describe God’s actions and amazing events in our lives.  I had to come to terms with using “miracle” the hard way, at least for an author, when my publisher decided to title my holistic and progressive-oriented book on the healings of Jesus, God’s Touch: Faith, Wholeness, and the Healing Miracles of Jesus (Westminster/John Knox, 2001).  “Miracle” was not in my spiritual and theological vocabulary.  Although I have written... Read more