My Review of "Enjoy"

Trillia Newbell's Enjoy: Finding the Freedom to Delight Daily in God's Good Gifts is an amazing book that explores all those ways in which we often miss opportunities to participate in God's divine delight because we're discouraged, self-absorbed or feeling guilty.  As Newbell reminds us on nearly every page in innumerable ways God's gracious gifts come to us every day, and, as she writes, women particularly need reminders that those gifts are for enjoyment.  Newbell covers everything from relationships and careers to food and sex.  And invites readers to grow in their understanding of God's activity in the world.

This is a thought-provoking book that will help readers -- male and female -- learn to live with gratitude and humility.  I've added it to my personal shelves to read and re-read again and again.

I received a free copy of this book as part of the Blogging for Books program in exchange for my honest review here.

My Review of "The Great Spiritual Migration"

Brian McLaren's newest book, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion is Seeking a Better Way to be Christian is by far his greatest book.  Here, McClaren gives a clear voice for what a "new kind of Christian" actually looks like in a world fraught with a number of imminent ecological, economic, social, political, and spiritual crises.

Follows, McLaren writes, need a faith that abandons a punitive deity in favor of a creative god of love and nonviolence.

The Great Spiritual Migration is divided into three sections, each with study questions.  The first urges readers to move from dogma to a loving way of life; the second continues the theme by advocating for an "integral/literary" (nonliteral) view of the Bible; and the third begins to imagine how a new Christianity might look.

McLaren gives us a convincing view of what that Christianity might be.

This is not a book to be missed.

I received a free copy of this book as part of the Blogging for Books program in exchange for my honest review here.