These are book reviews from Joe Burnham. These reviews are part of the curated content and recommended reading suggested in the Abundance Reconstructed newsletter, a monthly email that explores faith on the other side of Christian deconstruction.
Each issue of the newsletter takes on a substantive topic and explores how to think about it in light of who God is and what God is doing in the world. The end goal is the creation of an intellectually rich spirituality that drives the faithful to action.
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The morning after Super Tuesday 2020 I picked up Resident Aliens. Deeply discouraged and hurting for our country, I needed something to help me focus my pain on some thing productive. I remember scanning through Hauerwas and Willimon’s work while earning my Masters of Divinity at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, and something told me it …