While millions of believers around the world are finding their understanding of Christianity to be outdated and untenable, Matthew Distefano has managed to paint the Gospel in such a way that even an atheist could appreciate its beauty. Rather than a message of rapture, or rewards and reprisals, Distefano presents the good news of what God has done in history to stem the tide of our own violence and evil--inviting us into a whole new way of living and being in this world. By integrating RenE Girard's "mimetic theory" and Ernest Becker's "death anxiety," Distefano is able to diagnose the...
While millions of believers around the world are finding their understanding of Christianity to be outdated and untenable, Matthew Distefano has ma...
What if the Gospel is not about making the Godless Godly, but making the godly godless? What if Jesus isn't interested in calling us to add one more deity to our list of priorities, but to abandon the notion of the divine as we've imagined it altogether, and to follow him down a path so contradictory to our concepts of God, that it looks more like forsaking him than following him? In The Atheistic Theist, Jeff Turner argues that the only way to find God is to lose God, and that many of us who think we've found God, have lost God. This book is a radical call to recapture the Church's ancient,...
What if the Gospel is not about making the Godless Godly, but making the godly godless? What if Jesus isn't interested in calling us to add one more d...
Freckle-faced fifteen and sixteen year-old uniformed sentries no longer stand guard at the summer camp's main entrance, .30 caliber rifles slung over their shoulders. The roar of artillery drills, once rattling the window panes of nearby cottages and the frayed nerves of summer vationers, is silent. The bugle calls piercing the stillness of dawn and dusk on the river are no more.
Over a century ago, the civilian-backed Junior Naval Reserve established its first summer station in Uncasville, Connectivut. The river camp sought to prepare our nation's youth for service in the navy or...
Freckle-faced fifteen and sixteen year-old uniformed sentries no longer stand guard at the summer camp's main entrance, .30 caliber rifles slung ov...
