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Don’t worry, this post will be short. Apparently, the typical reader today can’t handle articles or posts that are too long or too complex, being so easily distracted. This is certainly the claim of Nicholas Carr in a much discussed article published in The Atlantic Monthly a few years back, “Is Google making us stupid?” In it . . . → Read More: Easily distracte… We have written a book. The Insect and the Buffalo: How the story of the Bible changes everything, is a short introduction to the story of scripture written to help people re-read, re-think and re-engage with the Bible. Here’s how we describe it in the blurb: When we read the Bible, it’s easy to feel like God wrote . . . → Read More: The Insect and the Buffalo Below is a post written by a good friend of mine Charles Belcher sharing some thoughts raised by Lesslie Newbigin’s fantastic little book, Foolishness to the Greeks (Like anything by Newbigin, well worth a read!). Charles has been involved unofficially with Compass for a few years now and in order to widen the conversation carried on . . . → Read More: Opening up the conversation Are you my God? For all its controversy, in the end, The Shack isn’t controversial enough. My deep suspicion as I read through Young’s book, is that if our culture was going to create a god it felt comfortable with, she/he would look a lot like the God of The Shack: God the gentle therapist, infinitely concerned with . . . → Read More: The Shack – a review – part 3 If read well, The Shack is worth reading. As far as endorsements go, mine is perhaps less ringing than Eugene Peterson’s, but it goes beyond Mark Driscoll’s encouragement not to read The Shack at all. So what do I mean? Those most negative of The Shack draw out in fine detail its points of theological inadequacy, of which . . . → Read More: The Shack – Review – Part 2 Who would have thought that a book about a guy having a conversation with God in a rundown shack would be such a phenomenon. But that’s exactly what William P. Young’s The Shack is, a phenomenon – 55 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, over three million copies sold and all this from a . . . → Read More: The Shack – Review – part 1 |
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