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BOOK: Trick or Treat?

October 2, 2023October 18, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

Halloween has a complicated relationship with Christianity. The origins of the holiday, like many holidays, has its roots in ancient divination practices and lore while also having a distinctly Christian side. The near-constant metamorphosis of the holiday throughout the centuries in addition to the fact that the holiday deals with death has resulted in a muddled picture of what Halloween celebrates. In Trick or Treat? Lisa Morton traces the practices from the British Isles to the evolution of the holiday in America brought over by immigrants from Ireland to the modern-day commercialization of the event.

Books/Church History/Devotional

BOOK: Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Changed My Faith

June 8, 2023June 8, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

What can we learn from the saints in history? Were they people that were on a higher spiritual plane? Did they know something we do not? In Vintage Sinner and Saints Karen Wright Marsh profiles 25 brothers and sisters of the faith in short digestible chapters telling a humanizing antidote or two about a saint while seamlessly exploring ways the saint pushes her to examine her own life and walk with God.

Books/Consistent Life Ethic

BOOK: Less Than Human

June 2, 2023March 29, 2025 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

The majority of humans would agree that murder is wrong and yet human history is littered with genocide, whole populations being kidnapped and enslaved, and wars replete with ghastly atrocities. How is it that we can say the murder of another human is terrible, but in an instant dehumanize a fellow human and perform, or at least allow, dehumanizing acts? In Less Than Human author David Livingstone Smith pulls from history, biology, philosophy, and anthropology to perform an in-depth analysis of dehumanization and why we seem predisposed to dehumanizing others.

Books/Reading the News

BOOK: Untrustworthy

May 31, 2023May 31, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

The late pastor James Atwood believed guns to be the biggest problem facing the American church. Author Jemar Tisby argues that racism and white supremacy are. In Untrustworthy, Bonnie Kristian asserts the largest problem facing American churches is epistemic (epistemic -- of or relating to knowledge or knowing). According to Kristian -- the poisons of cancel culture, conspiracy theories, and skepticism of experts in conjunction with social media algorithms incentivized to make money at all costs are the largest problems facing the American church. Kristian posits that if we can't agree on whom to trust or what is true then everything else is a moot point.

Books/Drugs

BOOK: Cannabis and the Christian

April 11, 2023March 29, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

"Cannabis is the good provision of a kind and benevolent God. It is not inherently evil," professor of Theology at Western Seminary Todd Miles says. But, before you drive down to your local dispensary Miles has much more to say on the subject in Cannabis and the Christian

Books/Image of God

BOOK: The Imago Dei – Humanity Made in the Image of God

March 16, 2023February 26, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

The doctrine of the image of God is like prayer, communion, or any other practice that has become perfunctory. We kind of know what it is and what it means, but the necessity and revolutionary nature of the practice or belief has dulled with time and repetition. In The Imago Dei: Humanity Made in the Image of God author, Lucy Peppiatt seeks to break the casual understanding of this indispensable doctrine by defining the three main perspectives, getting into the weeds by analyzing church fathers' and theologians' thoughts on the nuances of the doctrine, and finishing with a superb summary.

Books/Christian Nationalism

BOOK: The Religion of American Greatness

January 19, 2023April 21, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

Many books taking on the subject of Christian nationalism identify, and rightly so, the idolatry, racism, and tribalism of the movement, but few theologically, academically, historically, and charitably dismantle the movement as well as Paul D. Miller, does in The Religion of American Greatness. But, dismantling Christian nationalism was not his sole goal in writing the book--he hopes his book assists Christians with being better witnesses.

Books/Christian Nationalism

BOOK: The Flag and the Cross

January 17, 2023February 15, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

Christian nationalism is not a new phenomenon. Nor is it a fringe element of the Republican party. In The Flag and the Cross professors Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry detail the history of Christian nationalism dating back to the 1600s, define its core beliefs, how it has adapted over the centuries, and suggest ways Americans can stop this substantial threat to American democracy.

Books/Policing

BOOK: The Rise of the Warrior Cop

December 12, 2022April 26, 2024 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

From Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, every sitting president for the last 50 years, Republican or Democrat, has militarized America's police force. In The Rise of the Warrior Cop, author Radley Balko asks, "How did we evolve from a country whose founding statesmen were adamant about the dangers of armed, standing government forces—a country that enshrined the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights and revered and protected the age-old notion that the home is a place of privacy and sanctuary—to a country where it has become acceptable for armed government agents dressed in battle garb to storm private homes in the middle of the night, not to apprehend violent fugitives or thwart terrorist attacks but to enforce laws against nonviolent, consensual activities?"

Books/Devotional

BOOK: What If Jesus Was Serious About the Church?

December 5, 2022February 15, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

Is the church a building? Is it a group of people? As Christians, are we required to be part of the church? Has the American church, writ large, lost the essential Christian values of faith, hope, and love? In Skye Jethani's third installment from his superb What If Jesus Was Serious devotional series Jethani teases out the nuances of the church, what it should be, and what it should not be in 51 devotionals.

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