book review

Review of The Devil Wears Nada by Tripp York

by Gus Kroll 19 September 2011

York, Tripp. The Devi Wears Nada: Satan Exposed. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011.
On a semi-regular basis I get frustrated at whatever stack of books I’ve been reading because I don’t do a very good job of balancing my literary diet. I read way too many that make me far more misanthropic than I am normally [...]

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Book Review: “Come Out, My People!” God’s Call out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond by Wes Howard-Brook

by Frank Cordaro 23 March 2011

I have wanted to read this book for many years. It just was not written yet. Now that it is, we Catholic Workers and faith-based-nonviolent-resistance-to-the-USA-Empire type folks owe Wes Howard-Brook a debt of gratitude. Not since reading Ched Myers’s ground-breaking Binding the Strong Man has a book so influenced my reading of the scriptures. What [...]

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An Interview with Sara Miles

by Jarrod McKenna 23 February 2010

I’m thoroughly biased but I think everyone should read Sara Miles new book Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead. My bias is not just grounded in our shared love for the theology of James Alison and William Cavanaugh. It’s less cerebral and more intuitive. My bias has something to do with the tears that have rolled [...]

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Book Review: Living on Hope While Living in Babylon

by Andy Alexis-Baker 4 September 2009

York, Tripp. Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian Anarchists of the Twentieth Century. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009.
Reviewed by Andy Alexis-Baker
In this book, Tripp York tells the life stories of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, Clarence Jordan, and the Berrigan brothers with wit and engaging prose. With these brief biographical accounts, [...]

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We Become What We Worship

by Administrator 28 December 2008

It is not news to any of us that Americans – even some American Christians – are in fact idol worshippers. Heck, one of our most famous televisions shows is American Idol. We drink deep from the well of militarism and worship Empire. We love cheap “stuff”: commodities made in…who cares? It’s a bargain!!! [...]

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Not The Religious Type

by Chad Ellens 21 October 2008

I’ll admit, I wasn’t terribly keen to read this book. The title (Not The Religious Type) and the sub-title (Confessions Of A Turncoat Atheist) had me moaning inside: “please, not another tale of struggling with God for five minutes before surrendering to cliches”. It’s all well and good if people find tranformation like that, but [...]

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Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds

by Michael Cline 6 August 2008

After expressing his apologies to the 50 million individuals in our world infected with HIV/AIDS, Tom Davis goes beyond scolding the Church for its lack of initiative (“Those of us who claim to follow Christ’s teaching should be ashamed…Entire nations are going up in flames while we watch them burn,” p. 13) and challenges those [...]

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My Beautiful Idol by Pete Gall

by Michael Cline 2 May 2008

If fourth century saint Augustine ever met up in a dark alley with twenty-first century author Donald Miller… and then instead of coming to blows, they skipped hand in hand to the nearest pub…and then it was decided upon to sit down over a pint and share their stories with one another…and then somehow [...]

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