Category Archives: Reviews

Webber: The Divine Embrace 8: Everything must change

Posted on March 9, 2008 by me

Some of you might recognize Everything must change as the title to a rather poor book by Brian McLaren which I reviewed some time back. While McLaren – in my opinion – failed miserably in laying out a case for why … Continue reading →

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Webber: The Divine Embrace 7: What now?

Posted on February 29, 2008 by me

Part three of The Divine Embrace is entitled “The Challenge: Returning Spirituality to the Divine Embrace,” which is an excellent encapsulation of Webber’s point: we don’t need to find anything new, we simply need to recapture the church’s original understanding … Continue reading →

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Bourne again?

Posted on February 28, 2008 by me

I heard yesterday that they are planning a 4th Bourne movie. The article I read questioned what they’d do, since Robert Ludlum only wrote 3 Bourne novels. However, if that author had ever read any of the novels, they’d have known … Continue reading →

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Webber: The Divine Embrace 6 – Modern to Postmodern

Posted on February 25, 2008 by me

In the opening paragraph to Chapter 4 of Robert Webber’s book, The Divine Embrace, Webber writes: Spirituality has become situated in the narrative of the self. In this privatized spirituality evangelicals look to themselves for the confirmation of their spiritual … Continue reading →

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