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		<title>Reframe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where do we look for material that helps us to better understand how the biblical story should make a tangible difference in our own everyday lives? Not everyone has the capacity or inclination to enroll in formal theological education. And even those who can, often find such courses either too academic or disconnected from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books and more books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Point No.1: I love books Alongside my espresso machine, computer, bicycle and Toyota Vitz, my library is one of my most valued possessions. I could wax lyrical about each of these other wonderful pieces of technology, but now is not the time nor place. As for my books – well, how long have you got? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost History Of Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Jenkins  (HarperCollins, 2008) This is a fascinating book from a trusted and highly readable scholar. It is a story that is both inspiring and sobering, enlightening and disturbing. I highly recommend it. Having had my appetite for Middle Eastern history whetted again by Rodney Stark’s book, God’s Battalions (see the Ruminations site for my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Battalions: The case for the Crusades</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rodney Stark (HarperCollins, 2009) At first glance the subtitle of this most recent book by Rodney Stark is rather provocative, perhaps even distasteful. No doubt this is intentional – both on the part of the author and the publisher. “The case for the Crusades”? It raises the question: is Stark seriously trying to argue that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Emergence: How Christianity is changing and why</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phyllis Tickle  (Baker Books – Emergent Village resources, 2008) Most of us are aware that the age we live in is potentially an epoch-defining one in the history of Western culture. We may well be straddling two ages. For years we’ve been seeking to understand the wider culture’s move away from the modernism that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deliberate Simplicity: How the Church does more by doing less</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Browning (Zondervan, 2009) The title caught my eye, so I bought a copy. It was worth it. Although there are aspects of Browning’s take on church that make me feel uncomfortable, most of his basic premises are ones I agree with. Browning leads a church movement that consists of dozens of small groups, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Divine Commodity: Discovering a faith beyond consumer Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Titles are often the first point of interest for me in determining whether I should read a book. This title immediately grabbed my attention – particularly as I’ve read widely and thought deeply over the years about consumerism and its impact on faith. And I was already familiar with the insightful writing of Skye Jethani, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprised by Hope: rethinking heaven, the resurrection and the mission of the church</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.T. Wright (HarperOne, 2008) Thank God for Tom Wright! This is a book that needed to be written and I’m thankful that the Bishop of Durham was the person. For two reasons really – one is that it would be difficult to get a more trusty guide of the New Testament and secondly, because Wright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Hostage: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma and the Generals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justin Wintle (Arrow, 2007) When friends gave me this book as a gift, they certainly hit the mark. I have more than a passing interest in Myanmar/Burma and this biography has added immensely to my understanding of this tragic country and its “imprisoned” people. Having briefly visited Burma (in October, 2007 – three weeks after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outstanding books from 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I noted four books that I really appreciated reading during 2006. Well, here’s a similar attempt from the vintage year of 2007… The Jesus Way, Eugene Peterson (Eerdmans, 2007) This is the third book in Eugene Peterson’s spiritual theology series (the first two being Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places and Eat This [...]]]></description>
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