Reimagining Spiritual Formation (Church Reimagined) - Doug Pagitt and the Solomon’s Porch Community 

I really don’t have a lot to say about this book. But how do you review a book if you can’t explain it, don’t have anything to compare it to, consider it to be very personal, and have absolute mixed feelings about it. I think this is a great book to read. It tells a story, and a very interesting one. It’s not a book with a worked out plan for how to fix your church, and I don’t think that was the intention. You won’t agree with everything, that’s impossible, since this is an experiment, theologically as well as ecclesiologically. But this should get those creative juices flowing. Should get you thinking about what great ideas might lie there waiting in your congregation.

soulTsunami - Leonard Sweet

The best way to describe this is as an experience. It’s not really a very well structured book, don’t think is was intended to be. Sweet repeates himself sometimes, sometimes I got the feeling he contradicts himself. But all of it adds up to produce the experience. I ended up having a huge amount of stories to share with my family when I got home, about a lot of stuff, most not related to theology. But most of all I had an experience. It got the little bit of creativity I had up and running, and got me dreaming some more about the church. A definite must read. And for the UP students, you can find it on Level 1 of the main library, at 261SWEET.