Book Reviews
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In the river they swam
Posted: 10 June 2011 by Mission Catalyst
Edited by Fairbanks, Alban Books ISBN: 978-1-59947-251-5 The foreword by Rick Warren suggests that he would be recommending this book as a textbook or guide for how churches within the PEACE network might begin to ‘assist the poor...
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What good is God?
Posted: 10 June 2011 by Mission Catalyst
By Philip Yancey, Hodder & Stoughton, £12.99 ISBN: 978-0-34099-614-0 What good is God? is a collection of thoughtful addresses the author has given in ten very different social contexts. Each chapter has two sections; the first part...
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You don't have to cross the ocean to reach the world
Posted: 10 June 2011 by Mission Catalyst
By David Boyd, Chosen Books, £7.99 ISBN: 978-0-80079-447-7 In this book David challenges both the local church and mission agencies to take a new, but very old, look at mission. He is at pains to point us to the model of mission in the...
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I was once a Buddhist nun
Posted: 10 June 2011 by Mission Catalyst
By Esther Baker, IVP, £7.99 ISBN: 978-1-84474-384-1 This is a frank and personal account of a life’s journey searching for a truth that satisfies. It starts with the author dedicating herself to Buddhism first in Thailand and then...
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The Reformation manifesto
Posted: 10 June 2011 by Mission Catalyst
By Cindy Jacobs, Bethany House, £8.99 ISBN: 978-0-76420-515-6 Though written from within a Christian constituency that is not my natural home, I soon realised that, despite there being roughly two billion Christians in the world, The...
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Book review: God doesn't do waste
Posted: 22 March 2011 by Mission Catalyst
By Dave Bookless, IVP, £7.99 ISBN: 978-1-84474-473-2 Challenged by his attitude to the environment, Dave Bookless began a journey that would lead him to a wasteland in west London. The story of the Minet Country Park began with a...
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Bible and ecology
Posted: 14 March 2011 by Mission Catalyst
By Richard Bauckham, Darton, Longman & Todd, £14.99 ISBN: 978-0-23252-791-9 This book seeks to explore the Bible’s understanding of the place of humanity within the rest of God’s creation, in the light of the massive...
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Strength to love
Posted: 14 March 2011 by Mission Catalyst
By Martin Luther King Jr, Fortress Press, £12.99 ISBN: 978-0-80069-740-2 The deepest and most profound insights of Martin Luther King Jr were produced in the midst of his struggles for social justice in the civil rights movement....
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Women in mission
Posted: 14 March 2011 by Mission Catalyst
By Susan E Smith, Orbis Books, £16.99 ISBN: 978-1-57075-737-2 In this book, Catholic missiologist Susan Smith seeks to redress the ongoing silence about the impact of women in the history of mission. It begins with a critical...
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Mission shaped evangelism
Posted: 14 March 2011 by Mission Catalyst
By Steve Hollinghurst, Canterbury Press, £16.99 ISBN: 978-1-85311-842-5 Evangelism used to be so easy; there were countless ways to convince people of their wretchedness and sin. Once we were convinced they despised themselves enough,...