Book & Movie Reviews

Here is where you will find books and movies reviewed. They are all looked at through the "Crossings Glasses". Our reviewers will tell you how each stacks up and what you can expect to find, all from a Christian perspective.

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• Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness From The Modern Myth of The Self., Marilynne Robinson
• A. Karl Boehmke, Forgiveness: Never Easy / Always Possible.
• An Expanding Theology: Faith in a World of Connections.
• Authority Vested. A Story of Identity and Change in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
• The Bible and Homosexual Practice - Texts and Hermeneutics
• Bill O'Reilly, Culture Warrior
• Beyond The Passion. Rethinking The Death and Life of Jesus.
• Building a Better Bridge: Muslims, Christians, and the Common Good.
• Carl E. Braaten's Because of Christ: Memoirs of a Lutheran Theologian.
• Christian Education as Evangelism
• "Christians and Spices." Confrontation and Interaction between Colonial and Indigenous Varieties of Christianity
• A Church Divided. German Protestants Confront The Nazi Past.
• The Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
• "Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today"
• Dean Lueking, "Through Their Eyes. A People's View of the Global Church"
• Diarmaid MacCulloch: Christianity. The First Three Thousand Years.
• The ELCA Task Force report on Sexuality: Conscience-bound or Conscience-freed?
• Ernest Werner's Rod of Jesse
• Faith Aloud: Doing Theology From the Hymns in Papua New Guinea.
• Faithful Conversation: Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality
• Friedrich Schleiermacher. Christmas Eve Celebration: A Dialogue
• The Future of Justification--A Response to N.T.Wright.
• The Future of Lutheranism In a Global Context
• The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology
• God: The Evidence. The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World.
• The Gospel According to Jesus
• Grace at the Table. Ending Hunger in God's World.
• Grace Upon Grace: Spirituality for Today, by John Kleinig.
• Gregory Anderson Love. Love, Violence, and The Cross: How The Nonviolent God Saves Us Through The Cross of Christ.
• The Hammer of God
• The History of Medical Missions
• "Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11"
• How Much Is Enough? Hungering for God in an Affluent Culture.
• How to Give a Eulogy
• "I Am a Christian: the Nun, the Devil and Martin Luther." Carolyn M. Schneider
• Jesus Before Christianity.
• Jesus Through Jewish Eyes. Rabbis and Scholars Engage an Ancient Brother in a New Conversation.
• The Kingdom of God in Today's Mission Theology - A Controversy.
• The Kingdom of God in Today's Mission Theology - A Controversy. PART TWO
• Law, Life, and the Living God: The Third Use of the Law in Modern American Lutheranism.
• "Law, Life, and the Living God: The Third Use of the Law in Modern American Lutheranism."
• Luther and World Christianity
• Luther and World Christianity. Part Two
• Luther's Theology of the Cross and its Relevance for South Asia.
• The Lutheran surrenders.
• Major American Jewish Theologian Calls for "Left-Hand-of-God" Theology.
• The Mango Tree Church. The Story of the Protestant Christian Church in Bali.
• Martin Luther
• Martin Luther: A Life.
• Mission For The 21st Century.
• Mission from a Position of Weakness.
• "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light"
• Paul F. Knitter: Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
• Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali
• Primacy of Popes and the Promise. A Review of O'Malley's "The History of the Popes"
• "Principles of Lutheran Theology"
• Proclaiming The Scandal. Reflections on Postmodern Ministry
• The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation
• The Reformation of the Keys: Confession, Conscience, and Authority in Sixteenth Century Germany
• Renate's Bethge's Book on Bonhoeffer - A Review
• Responses received to "The Lutheran surrenders "
• "Reviving Sacred Speech"
• The Rising of Bread for The World: The Outcry of Citizens Against Hunger. Arthur Simon
• The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology
• The Rule of Benedict XVI and His Battle With The Modern World.
• The Sacred Scriptures and The Lutheran Confessions. Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn
• The Sacred Scriptures and The Lutheran Confessions. Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Part II.
• Salvations: Truth and Difference in Religion
• A Seminary in Crisis. The Inside Story of the Preus Fact Finding Committee.
• A Seminary in Crisis. The Inside Story of the Preus Fact Finding Committee. Part II
• The Shack - A Book Review by Phil Kuehnert, Pastor, Zion Lutheran Church, Fairbanks, Alaska
• Some Reverie Brought on by Renate Bethge's Bonhoeffer Book
• Speaking Of Trust - Conversing with Luther about the Sermon on the Mount.
• The Theology of Johannes von Hofmann
• Theology of the Cross, the Melody of Three Books for Review
• Taking Your Soul to Work. Overcoming the Nine Deadly Sins of the Workplace
• Under The Tree Of Life. the Religion of a Feminist Christian.
• Welcome Them Home--Help Them Heal: Pastoral Care And Ministry With Service Members Returning From War
• When God Shows Up, a History of Protestant Youth Ministry in America, by Mark H. Senter III
• Whose Promised Land? The Continuing Crisis Over Israel and Palestine.
• Wounded Lord: Reading John Through the Eyes of Thomas: A Pastoral and Theological Commentary on the Fourth Gospel.