Monthly Archives: June 2012

Book Review: Genesis for Normal People

Posted on June 23, 2012 by wordhaver

I’ve read two books on Genesis this week, both of them thought-provoking, both instructive. But the second one, Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversial, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible by Peter Enns and Jared … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Wounded Healer

Posted on June 16, 2012 by wordhaver

What does it mean to be a minister in contemporary society? This is the question with which Henri Nouwen opens his book Wounded Healer. I read it last March the week before a surgery the scar of which would retrace … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Practice of Prophetic Imagination

Posted on June 14, 2012 by wordhaver

What can I say? I love Brueggemann. He always makes me look up words. And reread his lines. The Practice of Prophetic Imagination is six chapters. 149 pages. And it is vintage Brueggemann. But then, Brueggemann is one of those … Continue reading →

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