Wesley Vander Lugt

Theology

Afterword

(wrote an afterword)

Christian Living

“Walter Brueggemann has written about how the true work of ministry is rejecting the dominant cultural script--what he calls therapeutic, technological, consumeristic militarism--and living by the counter-script of God. Kate Haynes Murphy casts a similar vision and invites us to embrace an appropriately uncomfortable counter-script that challenges typical American ways of viewing church. Murphy vulnerably recounts her own faith and leadership journey; the temptation to desire a church that is large, in charge, and the talk of the town; and the humbling discovery that the way of Jesus often leads in the opposite direction. This book is an honest and encouraging saga of how someone who feels like a train wreck can participate in the subversive script and ministry of God. It's an invitation to find kinship and delight in the league of holy losers.”

The Aesthetics of Atheism

Theology

“In this courageous and creative work, Callaway and Taylor lead us beyond the tired binaries of modernity into honest engagement with our paradoxical existence and experience of God. In doing so, they've given us not only a fresh and challenging reading of the Gospel of Mark but have also provided a pathway toward receiving a/theistic popular culture as an aesthetic gift for revitalizing traditional construals of God's transcendence and immanence.”