Category: Books
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Women Rising: Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our Voice Book Review
Women Rising: Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our Voice by Meghan Tschanz This is such a powerful and evocative book in that it names so many of the particular issues and the unearned privilege that U.S. American’s and Christians have long hid behind–contributing to systemic issues and oppressive harms that affect women around the world and…
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Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys, Book Review
Absolutely necessary, incredibly thorough, essential reading if you want to understand what decolonizing Christianity looks like, understand the violent history of missions in this country, and the beauty of contextualization and storytelling. Dr. Richard Twiss, Sicunga Lakota, was an Indigenous leader and organic intellectual, who passed away in 2013. His book was published posthumously; the…
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Call of the Mourning Dove Book Review
I received this lovely book to review and got to enjoy the first part of it just after I completed my grad school applications back in October and my nephew and I went off to the park so he could play and I relaxed with this book, The Call of the Mourning Dove: How Sacred…
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Raise Your Voice
The words you are currently reading are about this important book, Raise Your Voice by Kathy Khang. This introduction is also about the background of my personal/ emotional/ connection and how it is all interwoven with taking back and raising my own voice. (while clumsily learning how to spend my own privilege) Three years ago…
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Healing the Purpose of Your Life
This book has been one of my lifelines over the past year. With the prompts within, I came up with three words that are unique to me, and to my way of being, the myriad of ways that I express my special way of being. These three words aren’t what you might think, and I…
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My All Time Favorite Books for Nurturing a Healthy Soul
“Remember who you were when you first arrived and reclaim the gift of true self.” – Parker J. Palmer I have some good books to share with you. I’m obsessed with the website Goodreads. Have you heard of it? It’s a fun and helpful way to catalog books you’ve read, are currently reading, and curate a…