Book Description
Somebody_s Daughter is the story of nineteen-year-old Sarah Thorson, who was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple in the Midwest. After dropping out of the University of Minnesota, she decides to study in Korea for a summer, more by happenstance than actual design, but as the summer progresses she becomes more and more intrigued by her Korean heritage and eventually embarks on a crusade to find her birthmother. Paralleling Sarah_s story is that of Kyung-sook, who was forced by difficult circumstances to let her baby be swept away from her immediately after birth, but who has always longed for her lost child. The two stories are told side by side: Kyung-sook_s is the remembrance of her childhood involvement with an American who eventually abandons her when she refuses to have an abortion, while Sarah_s is the contemporary story of her deepening involvement with the culture and language of Korea, with Doug, her Korean American classmate, and with her search. These two narratives converge in one poignant moment, when the two women literally pass each other like ships in the night.
Customer Reviews:
Truly uneven work of fiction.......2006-06-18
The reviews here ruin any surprise as to whether Sarah finds her birth mother. Instead this work's charm lies in how much the reader can emotionally invest in Sarah, the adoptee searching for Kyung Sook, her birth mother. That's a shame because Sarah continually underwhelms. She is as awkward as Lee Fiora in Prep, without the clear, astute observations that made Prep a satisfying read. Surprisingly this book's strength comes from the background story of birth mother Kyung-Sook. She is much more compelling in telling her story. Sarah, however, reveals little about herself that is charming, nuanced or self-aware. Unless you are a stalwart supporter of As-Am lit or very interested in adoptive lit then I suggest you pass on this one.
An Amazing, Beautifully-Written, Honest Book .......2006-05-12
I just finished reading Somebody's Daughter, by Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and it was amazing. What a beautifully-written, honest book.
It was truly one of those books where I felt as if I'd stepped into someone else's life for a little while, and was able to personally experience some of Sarah and her birth mother's life.
To be able to write such a book is a gift.
Lee doesn't sentimentalize the idea of international adoption -- she faces it head-on, with a sense of truth and honesty and reality. So often, all we see are the cute babies from abroad with their glowing new parents, but the story of how that happens can be a tragic or difficult one. And the story of what happens later can also be difficult.
Lee deftly handles both stories, and weaves together the saga of Sarah's birth mother, and Sarah herself, and how their lives parallel and where they go in different directions.
The ending was a surprise, and after I thought about it, quite appropriate in many ways.
It's not only a great book purely from the standpoint of a good read, but it has particular resonance for anyone affected by adoption -- whether a birth mother, an adopted child, or parent of an adopted child.
I highly recommend this book.
Very important piece of lit.......2006-04-30
I think this book is sort of a Madame Bovary of stories--let's you live the entire experience. I do know the author did a lot of research for it, and it shows in its accuracy, not in a showy way, but in its quiet truth. We are a family enriched by Korean adoption.
A Bummer.......2006-04-19
I am the mother of a little girl, 2, adopted from Korea nearly 2 years ago. I must confess now I did NOT finish the book; I just couldn't. It wasn't just that Sarah's description of her adoptive family (you know, the parents she couldn't bring herself to call "mom" or "dad) was heartbreaking; she just seemed so...well, as another reviewer said, shallow. And the book was stiff with stereotypes, reminding me of one of those Lifetime made-for-TV movies that have to ratchet up the angst to make up for a lack of storyline.
I will say that when Sarah has children of her "own", she'll probably adjust her perspective a bit. (In a moment of parental stress, she may even some day accuse her biological children of being "ungrateful!" Imagine!) THAT character, the one who GETS IT, would be interesting to read about, because she'll be multifaceted--for instance, able to feel the losses related to adoption, but also (maybe?) able to understand the love her birthfamily had for her--as well as their losses, disappointments, and struggles. (The mark of real adulthood, I'd say.)
Just a few days ago, I sent another letter and photos to our daughter's foster family, who adored her, AND to her birthmother (the birthfather is unknown to anyone but her), in the hopes they will one day want contact with us, and with the child she bore. Sad thing is, she has no interest in what became of her birthdaughter--none whatsoever. I cried on hearing that, but I won't give up. We have a good relationship with our son's birthmother (he is Asian, but was born here), and think it is fundamentally important, even more important than emphasizing his cultural heritage (which we also do, by the way). (And part of his "culture" is OURS. Or should we tell him he doesn't have a place there, either?)
(By the way, I have been a subscriber to, and avid reader of, Adoptive Families magazine, who published a review of the book. Now I wonder why they published the review at all. Sometimes, the adoption community bends over backwards to make up for transgressions of adoption made in the past. I think this was one example.)
Gorgeous Prose.......2006-02-15
"Somebody's Daughter" is tremendous in its unflinching portrayal of Korea, adoption, the relationships between mothers and daughters, and the relationship to one's self. Lee's prose is gorgeous, poetic, precise, and compelling. I finished this book in one sitting and was left breathless at the end.
Lee's talent as a writer is evident in all aspects of this book. Well-researched and well-rendered, "Somebody's Daughter" should be on every reader's bookshelf.
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#1 of THE HAWK CREST SAGA - HAWK'S PLEDGE.......2007-03-03
Whitford Hawk is looking for his brother, Drew who is just a year younger than he. Whit carries the crested ring that his father made for the boys and tied the girls in with a pendant.
Ah, but Simon Gault stole Harold Hawk's ring and his journal when he eliminated the man. Gault is determined to have a life of riches and influence, and moves to Galveston, Texas.
In the progression of time Whit stumbled onto La Posada and Jacqueline Douglas and her gram, Nada. The ranch used to be very prosperous before the war but was now down to the help of two men, Mort and Ortega.
Whit decided to stay a day or two and help with repairs to pay for borrowing Jackie's Arabian gelding so that he could ride onto Galveston.
I will let you read on how Jackie's and Whit's attraction for each other progresses.
When Hawk lands in Galveston he heads for the fancy bordello run by Chantalle Beauchamp. She has one nasty gal, Angie who works for her and is ready to tell all that she learns, for money. Angie has an unhealthy liason with Gault, but she would like to have the distinction of getting Hawk up to her room.
Jackie has trouble with a wandering bull - a hungry mountain lion and her hormones, which she doesn't understand. She also tends to be bull-headed.
Hawk has stirred up a hornet's nest around Galveston before he decides to horn in on Hutch Steiner, who wants Jackie and her ranch [well his father does].
Oh yes, don't forget to keep an eye on Bruce Carlton, the little weasel - he works for Simon.
Excellent plot - great characters - a gal who thinks she can take care of herself [don't they all] - a masculine hero who carries a threatening presence until he bumps into the female pheramones that scramble his brains.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -- might be a keeper set!
Solid Story - Captivating Beginning to Series.......2006-10-27
Whit Hawk was the eldest of four children abandoned in an El Paso orphanage. Their mother had run off with another man, their father in desperation gambled away his fortune then left to search another. As soon as he was old enough Whit left to search for his father. By the time he returned for his siblings it was to discover his two youngest sisters had been killed in a fire and now he was desperately searching for his brother. What he found instead was Jacqueline Douglas, a spunky beautiful rancher too proud to ask for help, whom he knew from the moment he laid eyes on her that she must be his. He would also meet a man whose hatred for him and his family would be a mystery to be solved.
*** With HAWK'SA PLEDGE, O'Banyon writes a full-bodied tale featuring Whit Hawk and the beginning of the "Hawk's Crest Saga". This saga is part of a quartet of novels in which she and author Elaine Barbieri will each write two books. In this first book Whit is shown to be a gambler as a means to an end in being able to pick up and go in order to follow any lead in locating the last remaining member of his family. Whit doesn't have any inclination to form attachments as he is driven by guilt over the deaths of his two sisters in a fire he feels could have been prevented if he'd never left them in the orphanage. He is hard but honorable and he is driven until he comes upon the sight of a beautiful woman dancing barefoot in a meadow.
Jackie Douglas is driven. She's lost her mother, father, brother and is now about to lose La Posada the ranch that has been in her family for generations. She's mortgaged the ranch and the note is due, so her dance was more of a tribute to the good memories of a lost way of life. Jacquie hadn't noticed Whit but when she did, like him it was a `knowing' feeling that her life belonged with him, in spite of the fact he was a complete stranger and she should have been leery of strangers.
Also introduced into the saga is one very bad, nasty piece of work, Simon Gault, who is going to do everything he can to destroy Whit and his family. Not only a central character in this book, but seen as being woven into future offerings feeding on his hatred for the Hawk siblings with the intention to destroy them all to cover his own guilt. The reason for his hatred, unbeknownst to Whit is fully explained in this first volume.
This is a captivating well-written beginning to a promising new series I'm looking forward to and recommend for your genuine reading pleasure.
Marilyn Rondeau, RIO - Reviewers International Organization
Courtesy of The Mystic Castle
Oh, I love a series!.......2006-08-22
While I love a series since it allows the author(s) more time to develop a character, I will have to wait until later this year for the final books in the series. I'll list the titles in the order they should be read for future readers: 1) Hawk's Pledge, 2) Hawk's Passion and 3) Hawk's Pursuit and 4)? Unknown at this time.
This is a well written book that developed the base of future stories to come. While I felt the characters fell in love a little too quickly, they didn't act on their lust immediately. I liked Jackie's honesty--no coy answers to Whit and I appreciated Whit's ability to curb his lust until he 'properly wedded Jackie. It seemed the right course of events for these two.
I'm reading Hawk's Passion and am enjoying it as well and look forward to all the books in this series.
I love this book.......2006-08-10
At first I thought the book was off to a slow start until I realized it was the beginning of a four book series, and O'banyon had to set the stage for all three books. When Whip met Jackie, the book took off and I went with it. Jackie is about to lose her ranch, until whip comes alone and lends a hand, as only a good looking, gun-toteing Texan can. I can't to read about the other Hawk family memebers. I love this book.
Could have been better........2006-08-09
The book started out good, then quickly changed and I was losing interest. I made myself continue the book since it is the first of 4. Then it got better and held my interest more.
Wasn't very pleased with Whit and Jackie, Too soon into meeting each other, on the first day they meet, they fall in Love, I don't think so. Whit seemed to be this big tough guy, I liked that, then he meets Jackie and he acts like a young boy.
Try it for yourself, but be prepared to be disappointed.
Book Description
Dr. Mackenzie Connor races against time to help the Interspecies Union devise a plan to prevent an interstellar enemy from conquering world after world.
Customer Reviews:
"Everyone else might want a visit from the Ro.".......2007-09-29
I actually enjoyed this second book in the Species Imperative series more than I enjoyed the first book, Survival. The romance between the main character and her sometimes spy lover is much less irritating than in the first book, and I found the ending to be generally more satisfying. Czerneda is a terrific hand with alien species, and again that was the part that I liked best about Migration. She has real verve and humor as she discusses the quirks of other species, and I heartily appreciated her voice in that sense.
I still think that Czerneda is at her best as a writer when she focuses on biology and not on human relationships. Mac's nearly obsessive relationship with the ghost of Emily is off-putting and does not feel grounded in real human behavior. As a result, some of the events in later sections of the book feel less well-grounded. Still, the problem with people is less obvious than it was in Migration.
Migration is not stand-alone, so read Survival before you start here. The whole series is recommended for speculative fiction readers who like a healthy dose of realistic biology in their alien creatures.
About the Same as the First Book.......2007-09-10
This book, "Migration," is the 2nd in Czerneda's "Species Imperative" trilogy (the first book is Survival: Species Imperative #1 (Species Imperative), the 3rd is Regeneration: Species Imperative #3 (Species Imperative)). I had hoped that this book would be an improvement over the first. On one hand, some things did get better (the main character actually uses some of her personal knowledge to further the plot (though it's mostly as the chairperson of a committee)). But, on the other hand, some things got worse (her "gaga" infatuation with Nik is just jarring, and now she's continually talking to Em in her head). Overall, my review for "Survival" applies equally well to this book. Like the 1st book, the biggest problem here is that Czerneda does nothing to further the plot until about half-way through. Instead of doing ANYTHING related to the situation at hand, Czerneda treats us to 250 pages of personal problems at Mac's lab/base, a vacation with aliens in the Canadian outback, eating "poodle" with said aliens, looking at owls for her Dad, and finally, just like in the first book, when pushed, she gets shipped somewhere and starts doing something. But, even that activity is unnecessarily drawn out since every time something starts to click, Mac gets drawn aside into some side difficulty. It's just frustrating to read.
Again, since the idea behind the story is so interesting, I was hoping this book would read better than the previous one. Unfortunately, I can give it no better than an OK 3 stars out of 5. Get it from the library before spending your own money on it.
"Survival Is a Moral Choice".......2007-08-05
Julie Czerneda's "Migration," second in her "Species Imperative" series, is great fun. Once again featuring Mac Connor, her spy/lover Nik, and her abducted chum Emily Mamani, this time out the author, doing what she does best, creates a whole new array of expertly created aliens who appear before you.
Mac, given hardly any time to recover from her extraterrestrial adventures in the first volume, "Survival," Survival: Species Imperative #1 (Species Imperative)has been recruited to lead a group of research scientists, human and alien alike. The recruiters are the Interspecies Union, an organization of intelligent life from throughout the galaxy. They're trying to discover why the Dhryn, the race featured in "Survival," are migrating like a bunch of genetically programmed salmon, and gobbling up worlds as they do so. They need, or so they think, the aid of the mysterious Ro, who live so far off the grid that they can't be seen. And it's the Ro who've conscripted Emily into helping them.
But can the Ro themselves be trusted? That is what Mac needs to know.
As in the first volume, the tale gets going slowly. Maybe you'll feel that there's a bit too much scene-setting in the early parts. But the behavior of some of the aliens is hilarious, as are Mac's reactions to them. (Imagine trying to save the galaxy from ruin with a bunch of alien youngsters clinging to your lab coat!)
Be certain to read "Survival" before tackling this one. And there's one more, "Regeneration" (already published), after this.
Wonderful Aliens, and a Strong Sequel.......2007-04-12
Species Imperative #2: Migration is the second book in Czerneda's trilogy, and picks up a short time after Survival: Species Imperative #1 (Species Imperative) left off.
Dr. Mackenzie Winifred Elizabeth Wright Conner (Mac), salmon researcher extraordinaire, has returned to the Norcoast research facility after barely surviving her discovery of the "true" nature of the Dhryn. Her friend, Dr. Emily Mamani, is still working with the mysterious Ro, who may be the key to stopping the Dhryn's murderous attacks. And Mac is struggling with a bit of post-traumatic stress as she tries to adapt to her former life.
In the first book, Mac wanted nothing more than to study her salmon, but the universe simply refused to leave her alone. The same holds true in book two. An earthquake devastates Norcoast, and Mac finds herself drawn back into Interstellar Union issues once again. This time, she is brought to an I.U. gathering to help research how to contact the Ro and stop the Dhryn. But are the Dhryn truly evil, or simply responding to the demands of biology? And are the Ro really the saviors some believe them to be?
There is a lot to love about this book. Czerneda's aliens are delightful as always, particularly the acerbic & lovable Myg, Fourteen. The author's own background in biology serves her well as she designs one species after another, from the terrifying metamorphoses of the Dhryn to the unique offensive capabilities of the Trisulians. Her talent for writing fully-developed, fascinating species makes the book worth reading all by itself.
In terms of plot, Migration suffers a bit from second-book syndrome. At the end of book one, the Dhryn have been loosed upon the galaxy. Planets have been scourged of life. Mac lost her hand to a Dhryn and barely escaped with her life. Yet in the beginning of book two, we see very little about these events. As a result, the pacing feels slow. It takes a while to get Mac out of Norcoast and back into the midst of things. In book one, when we didn't know what was happening, the author had more leeway to develop the characters and build suspense. This time, I was a bit impatient. Likewise, with the Species Imperative books being a single ambitious story, things are left unfinished at the end.
And yet I found the ending of Migration more satisfying than the ending of Survival. The threat to humanity and the I.U. is revealed to be even worse than before, but another, more personal plot point is brought to resolution.
Migration is a good book by itself. Having also read the third book in the series, I can say that the trilogy is a both a highly satisfying story and a very impressive feat by the author.
Great combination of action and development of alien characters.......2006-11-10
This book is the second in Czerneda's latest trilogy and is both a fast-paced thriller and a carefully crafted and imaginative story of alien life cycles and inter-species relationships. The character and motives, both of individuals and novel species of aliens, build upon the first book of the series, Survival, which you should probably read first. The science and relationships, both human and nonhuman, are engrossing and quite believable. Even if some of the action scenes push credibility a bit, they combine with fascinating people and aliens to make this book impossible to put down.
Book Description
The church must be like water--flexible, fluid, changeable. This book is a vision for how the church can embrace the liquid nature of culture rather than just scrambling to keep afloat while sailing over it.
Ward urges us to move away from the traditional understanding of church as a gathering of people meeting in one place at one time to a dynamic notion of church as a series of relationships and communications. In the Liquid Church, membership is determined by participation and involvement. Liquid Church is continually on the move, flowing in response to the Spirit and the gospel of Jesus, the imagination and creativity of its leaders, and the choices and experiences of its worshippers.
Customer Reviews:
The Church of the Future?.......2007-02-09
Having just finished Liquid Church, by Pete Ward, my head is spinning. I think it's a good thing. It's a tiny book that packs a big punch; part theology, part sociology, and part dream...I'm amazed at the sheer amount of new ideas Ward crams into 98 pages. As Ward future-casts the church, many of his ideas are admittedly speculative, which leads to an ethereal journey on what the body of Christ could be.
Here's what I mean. Ward clearly and coherently articulates the pulse of our Western culture's shift from modernity (solid) to postmodernity (liquid). Often, he refers to the present as 'liquid modernity'. The solid ice of modernity is melting away, resulting in some big ice chunks left floating about an increasingly fluid culture. It's a helpful metaphor that effectively frames his thoughts throughout the book.
Ward's recommendation is that the church must become liquid in order to reach a liquid culture. Solid church (aka, Church as we've always known it), centered on a weekly congregational gathering, is completely irrelevant to a liquid culture that no longer utilizes a regular, weekly, social gathering as its primary method of communication and community formation. Instead, liquid culture relies on networks, communication processes based on hubs (affinity-based gathering beyond a Sunday morning service) and connecting nodes (methods of communication/participation in the network).
So how do we be the church given postmodernity's fluidity. The fundamentalist will inevitably claim: Stay firm. Keep doing the things we've been doing. The 'liquid' believer will see what God is doing in the waters of culture and seek to engage it.
One other point worth noting: Ward has an interesting take on need vs. desire and the church's role in the debate. Solid church, according to Ward, has focused on trying to show culture what it truly 'needs'. All the while, they ignore postdmodern humanity's desires. Postmodernity is less interested in being told what it 'needs'. Postmoderns are more interested in quenching their spiritual thirst. Solid church responds, "Well, this is what you need." Postmodernity's response: "But this is what I desire." Liquid church seeks to cater to the good, life-giving desires of postmodernity, while upholding the central, core tenets of the Christian faith.
I'm still working through a few of Ward's prescriptions, trying to determine what my response should be. For example: He proposes embracing spiritual consumerism, and redeeming it. I'm having trouble with this, as I believe one of the main weaknesses of churches today is their blatant consumerist orientation. In spite of a few questions, I'd highly recommend this book. Ward brings that British perspective on Western culture that is desperately needed in the U.S.
Great Flexibility, But a Missions Mix is Needed in This Fluid.......2007-01-08
When I first read the description of the book, Liquid Church (Hendrickson Publishers, 2002), I was intrigued. The book noted that in the changing cultural environment of the West "the church must be like water - flexible, fluid, changeable." That the book was written from a U.K. perspective was also of interest to me in that I have found materials coming from the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand more beneficial on average than that coming from America. The dramatic post-Christendom context of these Western countries has forced church leaders to think outside the box in ways that many Americans have yet to grapple with.
Liquid Church is written by Dr. Pete Ward who teaches at King's College in London. Dr. Ward teaches in the area of popular culture and theology, and he has written on these topics as well well as on various aspects related to youth ministry.
My interest in reading Liquid Church, like that of Neil Cole's Organic Church (Jossey-Bass, 2005), is to gauge the extent to which those in the emerging church are aware of broader cultural trends in the West, how church forms may be reconceptualized in post-modernity, and the extent to which contemporary authors are interacting with various academic disciplines in order to help the church understand and respond to cultural challenges. In this regard I was pleased to see Dr. Ward not only consider issues of theology and ecclesiology, but also the insights provided by sociology and cultural studies.
The central thesis of Ward's book is a contrast between what he describes as "solid church" forms and "liquid church." Ward draws upon the writing of Zygmunt Bauman who explores contemporary Western culture and who notes that modernity has produced institutional expressions of church that tend to be more solid and rigid. Ward also describes various mutations of solid church that he describes as heritage site, refuge, and nostalgic community.
In contrast with solid church Ward notes that within modernity we are also observing cultural changes that evidence increasing fluidity. As Ward quotes Leonard Sweet on cultural change while drawing upon the metaphor of liquid:
"If the Modern Era was a rage for order, regulation, stability, singularity, and fixity, the Postmodern Era is a rage for chaos, uncertainty, otherness, openness, multiplicity, and change. Postmodern surfaces are not landscapes but wavescapes, with the waters always changing and the surfaces never the same. The sea knows no boundaries."
The shift of culture from modernity to postmodernity, from what Ward describs as solid culture to liquid culture, necessitates new expressions and understandings of church from solid church to liquid church. But while such talk often makes more traditional church leaders uncomfortable with the fear of abandonment of all of the past, Ward strikes a balance here. He states:
"I do not argue that we should abandon all existing patterns of church in favor of this new idea or proclaim that all is 'post' and that this heralds an impending apocalypse that will sweep solid church before it."
Instead of sweeping dismissal of solid church forms in modernity, Ward offers two suggestions. First, that mutations of solid church "has seriously decreased its ability to engage in genuine mission in liquid modernity." Second, that fluid expressions of church are essential in that they take "the present culture seriously and seeks to express the fulness of the Christian gospel within that culture."
As Ward describes the liquid church alternative he provides brief but helpful theological considerations such as what it means to be in Christ as compared to in the church, reflections on the body of Christ, and how the New Testament teaching on the Kingdom of God relates to the church, particularly in the context of liquid church in post-modernity.
Special attention must be drawn to Ward's discussion of liquid church in consumer culture. Ward notes the church's function within an increasingly diverse and competitive spiritual marketplace and this has resulted in the commodification of the church as expressed, for example, in the Alpha Course in the U.K. (later exported to the U.S.) and "seeker" church approaches such as that of Willow Creek Community Church. Ward states that he believes that "commodification is essential for evangelism," and he provides an example from the "What Would Jesus Do?" or WWJD product marketing. Ward views this positively and states that "WWJD managed to incarnate Christ inside this fairly arid world [of fashion-conscious adolescence], and it did so by commodification."
In this area I must share my disagreement with Dr. Ward on multiple fronts. First, while it is true that the church has been shaped by consumerism and commodification within modernity, and to a certain extent there has been some benefit from the utilization of marketing aspects related to the seeker movement, it would seem that the modern church which is so often concerned about the dangers of syncretism has already been compromised by syncretism in its combination of consumer culture with its expressions of church in order to reach the seeker and its creation of an evangelical subculture that is consumer driven, as evidenced by the emphasis on programs, buildings, and the production of evangelical products for religious consumers inside and outside the church.
Second, I find it hard to find much that is positive with the WWJD phenomenon, whether for adolescents, children or adults, and in my thinking this provides a negative example of commodification rather than a positive example of penetrating the culture. Perhaps it would have been more appropriate and beneficial to have our lifestyles of service and self-denial serve as our personal identifiers of connection with Jesus rather than WWJD bracelets.
Third, I strongly disagree with Ward's contention that commodification is essential for evangelism. Instead of commodification we ought to be considering contextualization through reflection on intercultural studies and missiology. This area represents another weakness in Ward's thesis in that while he does reference David Bosch's Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (Orbis, 1991), he does not provide any indication that his theological and cultural reflection on liquid church has interacted with missiology or the history of Christian missions. This is especially evident in chaper 10 where he provides examples of worship for liquid church that include a contemporary setting from St. Paul's Cathedral in London and its use of a labyrinth, a medieval church before the Reformation, and Greek Orthodox worship. While I appreciate Ward's attempt to engage the history of the church in order to draw upon elements of the past for the present in worship (an example of influence from discussions of ancient-future worship?), he seems to lack recognition of the importance of cultural considerations related to missions wherein cultural forms of church are determined by the culture in order to inculturate expressions of worship appropriate for that culture.
Liquid Church provides a resource that will stimulate the thinking of those who are aware that something just is not quite right with many contemporary expressions of church in late modernity, and who want to take some initial steps in rethinking church in light of cultural change. But in my view the book demonstrates blind spots in the interaction between church and culture that would have been addressed through reflection on missions.
Liquid Church.......2003-03-14
Pete Ward demostrates remarkable insight into the dynmaics of doing and being church effectively in the midst of post-modern realities. His analysis is penetratingly accurate and sure to challenge long-held assumptions about the nature and mission of the Church. I would strongly encourage every pastor and congregational leader in North America to give this book an honest and open-minded reading. It will take you outside the box of limiting views of church as primarily meetings, buidlings and programs, to rediscover the dynamism of God's orginal trinitarian, relational design for all of life and our good work throughout creation. It compliments and resonates with exisiting works on this subject matter written by James Thwaites "Church Beyond the Congregation" and "Renegotiating the Church Contract". If you liked those books, you'll appreciate the insights and integrative thinking that Pete Ward demonstrates in "Liquid Church". Dare to read it, and you'll never be able to look at the exisitng landscape of church again in the same light. This book will dramatically impact your mindset and understanding of the mission of the Church.
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- The Bright Forever: A Novel
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