This month in the Patheos Book Club, we’re featuring a new book by Richard Hooper called Jesus, Buddha, Krishna & Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings. Hooper answered a few questions for us about why he wrote the book and what he gained in the process. Can you tell us a little about how this book came about? Between my second and third year of college I had what the psychologist, Abraham Maslow, would call a “peak experience.”  It resulted in a... Read more

In the spirit of the new book Letters to a Future Church: Words of Encouragement and Prophetic Appeals, InterVarsity Press and the Patheos Book Club hosted a contest inviting readers to submit their own prophetic letters to the Church.  IVP chose three winners to receive a gift package of books and the opportunity to have their letter published here at Patheos.  We’ll print one winning letter over the next three days. May these letters, and all of those from the book, inspire... Read more

By Deborah Heneghan, author of Closer than You Think, now featured at the Patheos Book Club. Guidance, guidance and more guidance!  We all receive it, but sometimes we don’t see it, or we choose to ignore it.  I will tell you that after going through the remarkable process of writing my book, Closer Than You Think: The Easy Guide to Connecting with Loved Ones on the Other Side, I will always check out any lead that I receive because it... Read more

In the spirit of the new book Letters to a Future Church: Words of Encouragement and Prophetic Appeals, InterVarsity Press and the Patheos Book Club hosted a contest inviting readers to submit their own prophetic letters to the Church.  IVP chose three winners to receive a gift package of books and the opportunity to have their letter published here at Patheos.  We’ll print one winning letter over the next three days. May these letters, and all of those from the book, inspire... Read more

This month at the Patheos Book Club, we are delighted to be featuring a new book by the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, called Gathering At God’s Table: The Meaning of Mission in the Feast of Faith.  The book is a beautiful and passionate exploration of the meaning of mission in the context of contemporary life, and offers a profound reminder of our role in God’s vision for a restored and reconciled world. Click here to read... Read more

In the spirit of the new book Letters to a Future Church: Words of Encouragement and Prophetic Appeals, InterVarsity Press and the Patheos Book Club hosted a contest inviting readers to submit their own prophetic letters to the Church.  IVP chose three winners to receive a gift package of books and the opportunity to have their letter published here at Patheos.  We’ll print one winning letter over the next three days. May these letters, and all of those from the... Read more

Dallas and the Spitfire is a description of redemption through mentoring.  Author Ted Kluck experiences a call not only to befriend former addict and ex-convict Dallas Janke.  Ted “disciples” Janke, helping him to deepen his emerging, but fragile, faith, and challenging him to walk the straight and narrow.  For Janke, the Bible is the text book of discipling and mentoring, and although Janke claims to be non-dogmatic and pokes fun at the legalism of fundamentalists, it is clear that Janke... Read more

[This post is part of a conversation on the new book, 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth, by E. Kent Rogers, now featured at the Patheos Book Club.] A number of years ago, I published a text on the healings of Jesus.  I was happy with the first part of the title – I had suggested it – God’s Touch. But, I was a little uncomfortable with one of the words behind the colon – and, of course, these days books... Read more

This morning I had the great pleasure of speaking with E. Kent Rogers, author of the new book 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth: A Path of Healing from the Gospels, from his home in Nepal where he runs an orphanage with his wife, Shovha. In the book, Kent explores twelve of Jesus’ miracles, or healings, and what they can offer us in terms of our own inner healing from the problems we face in our lives today. In our skype... Read more

This month at the Patheos Book Club, we’re featuring a new book about Christian discipleship called Dallas and the Spitfire: An Old Car, An Ex-Con, and an Unlikely Friendship, by Ted Kluck and Dallas Jahncke.  The story chronicles the unlikely friendship between Kluck, a 34-year old surburban Dad, and Jahncke, a 21-year former addict with a prison record, that develops through the restoring of an old Triumph Spitfire. Patheos’ Executive Editor Patton Dodd spoke with Kluck about the story —... Read more