My two new books are back in stock with amazon.com - What Does the Lord Require? Doing Justice, Loving Kindness, and Walking Humbly - and The Beauty of the Word: the Challenge and Wonder of Preaching.
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A blog by Rev. Dr. James C. Howell, senior pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina
About Me
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- James C. Howell
- I’m pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, NC, and I also teach preaching and ministry at Duke Divinity School as an adjunct. I write regular inspirational/ educational pieces you’ll find here, reviews of books pertinent to faith today and ministry, and I love to be part of conversations about life with God and in the world among Christians and clergy. Lots more on my web site, www.revjameshowell.com
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INTERESTING, RECENT BOOKS I'VE REVIEWED OR SUMMARIZED
- Peter Brown's Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
- Allah, by Miroslav Volf - do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?
- Evangelism in Postmodernity? by Brad Kallenberg
- T.F. Torrance's The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church
- Almost Christian, by Kenda Creasy Dean
- Friedman on Leadership!!!
- Hamlet's Blackberry - killer technology
- Francis Asbury biography by John Wigger
- John Webster on Holy Scripture
- the problem with Bart Ehrman's God's Problem
- Kavin Rowe's terrific book on Acts - World Upside Down
- Markus Bockmuehl on how we read (or misconstrue) the NT
- Radner's Christian Reading of Leviticus - Brazos Commentary
- Jesus as the Good Serpent? James Charlesworth, The Good & Evil Serpent
- James Davison Hunter, To Change the World - Summary
- The Trinity and Other Religions - Mark Heim's The Depths of Riches
- Preaching the Atonement, Stevenson & Wright
- Did Jesus have Women Disciples? Richard Bauckham's Gospel Women
- The DaVinci Code - fact or fiction?
- The Purpose Driven Life?