Ecclesial Dreamer…the ramlings of an ecclesial dreamer

I am happy to see that Samir’s book is getting good reviews. If you have not bought this book perhaps this video will whet your appetite… bit.ly/nvxXY ****EDIT**** and a new review in the NY Times can be found here: fwd4.me/3Qj Enjoy.

I was genuinely looking forward to reading Alicia Britt Chole’s Finding and Unseen God. It is marketed as the reflections of a former atheist and the story of her journey towards faith. It is stitched together in a very creative, non-linear way that leaves the reader moving back and forth between the beginning of the [...]

I have been waiting for It’s Really All About God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian to hit the shelves for a long time. Even though I have heard Selmanovic speak several times and had a good idea of where this book was heading, I was overwhelmingly and pleasantly surprised when I had an [...]

I had a very long post with some final thoughts on Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages but when I came back to publish it my browser had timed out on the save and all of it was gone. I tried to refresh with no luck. [...]

Gareth Higgins’ How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films does much more than review popular movies. If you are looking for a “thumbs-up, thumbs-down” type of resource you may want to look elsewhere. Instead, this book does a great job of training the readers how to find these spiritual [...]