By Joseph Susanka “. . .O good Jesus, hear me Within Thy wounds hide me Suffer me not to be separated from Thee. . .” In the first few pages to My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints, the inimitable Dawn Eden marvels at the Anima Christi’s swift transition from asking Christ to be with us to begging that we be allowed to come to Him. And not just to Him, but in... Read more

Pastor Joel Voelz, is his new book "Follow You Follow Me," asserts social networking is essential to ministry. Whether our networking focus is personal, congregational, or institutional, the what and the how are intimately connected. Read more

[This post by the Rev. Elizabeth Nordquist (and Patheos’ A Musing Amma blogger) is part of a roundtable conversation on the new book My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints, by Dawn Eden. Visit the Patheos Book Club for more conversation and resources related to this book.] The community of faith is always given a gift when someone tells the truth about a deep wound and seeks to bring theological and spiritual reflection to... Read more

This month in the Patheos Book Club, we’re featuring the new book Godspeed: Making Christ’s Mission Your Own, by the Rev. Britt Merrick.  This post by JR Rozko, and more to follow, are part of a roundtable conversation about the book and the topic of mission in general. I was privileged to be asked by Patheos to review a new addition to their book club, Godspeed: Making Christ’s Mission Your Own by Britt Merrick. My thoughts when I began reading ran in two... Read more

This month in the Patheos Book Club, we’re featuring the new book Godspeed: Making Christ’s Mission Your Own, by the Rev. Britt Merrick.  This post by David Swartz, and more to follow, are part of a roundtable conversation about the book and the topic of mission in general. Many Christians of all stripes find themselves doing the polka on ice. We move to the beat we know but find that our feet don’t have the cultural traction they used to... Read more

By George Elerick [This post is part of a conversation on the new book, PregMANcy: a dad, a little dude, and a due date, by Christian Piatt. Visit the Patheos Book Club to read an excerpt here.] If you looked at this cover and thought, “Ah, another “how-to-parent” book?!”  you would be wrong. This is an unfolding narrative about the angst of one man’s journey toward having another child. This is an honest look into the mind of a reluctant... Read more

By Christian Piatt It took me ten years to come back to church after having a Bible tossed at me by a youth minister. I asked too many questions, it seems, and I challenged some literal interpretations of scripture he held. After that I was invited not to return. And I didn’t. Some of us, myself included, don’t consider ourselves “Christian material” at one time or another. Sometimes it comes from being raised in a secular environment or a painful... Read more

I had the privilege of attending graduation ceremonies at Church Divinity School of the Pacific. It was a beautiful event. Being a Presbyterian I had to face facts, the Episcopalians just do a better job at this sort of thing. There were women and men in full regalia, a brass quintet, and the requisite pomp and circumstance surrounding the reading of the Gospel text; it put us to shame, and that was before we got to the Eucharist. They pulled... Read more

Closer Than You Think, a new book by Deborah Heneghan, is a guidebook of sorts for communicating with loved ones who have passed away.  Heneghan lost her sister when she was only 15 years old, and has had on-going communication with her ever since.  In fact, it was her deceased sister who prompted her to write this book, she says. Heneghan answered a few questions for us about who she wrote this book for, and what she hopes people take... Read more

Christian Piatt’s newest book, PregMANcy: A Dad, A LIttle Dude, and a Due Date, is one of those you just can’t put down.  I mean, how often do you get to hear a guy’s innermost, unedited thoughts from the nine months leading up to the birth of his baby?  Piatt’s honest, raw and hilarious stories from the period leading up to the birth of his second child, takes us right to heart of a man’s experience – or at least... Read more