Lillian Daniel
Autore di This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers
Sull'Autore
Lillian Daniel has served as the senior minister of the First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn, United Church of Christ, in the Chicago area, since 2004. A regular contributor to the Huffington Post, she is an editor at large for Christian Century Magazine and a contributing editor at Leadership mostra altro Journal. mostra meno
Opere di Lillian Daniel
When "Spiritual but Not Religious" Is Not Enough: Seeing God in Surprising Places, Even the Church (2013) 152 copie
Tired of Apologizing for a Church I Don't Belong To: Spirituality without Stereotypes, Religion without Ranting (2016) 47 copie
20 Ways to Add More Prayer to Your Life (Your Life, Better: 20 Ways Toward a Better You) (2011) 4 copie
20 Life Lessons Learned While Shopping (Your Life, Better: 20 Ways Toward a Better You) (2011) 4 copie
I'm With the Band 1 copia
Book of Acts Bible Study 1 copia
Opere correlate
What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013) — Collaboratore — 95 copie
Anxious about Empire: Theological Essays on the New Global Realities (2004) — Collaboratore — 86 copie
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- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 443
- Popolarità
- #55,291
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 19
- ISBN
- 14
This is why I was excited when I received* Tired of Apologizing for a Church I Don't Belong To by Lillian Daniel to read for review. This is a follow up of sorts to her previous book, but focusing on the rising group of the "nones." The nones are the people who have checked the word "none" under religious affiliation.
Daniel further subcategorizes the nones into 4 different types- no longer, no way, never have, and not yet. She looks briefly at each group and talks about how churches continue to do the same thing to attract these groups, yet don't really understand who they are. She uses a great analogy of a lifelong baseball fan talking to someone who doesn't like baseball or hasn't gone to a baseball game as what the church does for the nones.
Daniel also goes into a type of history of how the nones have begun to emerge throughout all of history. She mixes this history along with her own personal history. This was a good section to bring her theory home.
There were only a few critiques I had about the book, but they were not major. At times I found Daniel got into preacher mode which isn't a bad thing, but it drew away from her point. The other critique was this was super short. We are talking about 130 pages (ebook version). I thought she could have expanded a bit longer on her 4 sub categories.
I should also note that I am a liberal preacher. I make note of this because she is pretty critical of the evangelical conservative church. I wanted to warn my conservative readers about that one.
I gave this one 4 stars.
* I want to thank NetGalley and Faithwords for allowing me to read this advanced copy of the book. I received it from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.… (altro)