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Diana Butler Bass, PhD, is an award-winning author of many books, including Grateful and Grounded, a popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and one of America's most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality, especially where faith intersects with politics and culture. Her toon meer bylines include the New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN.com, Atlantic.com, USA Today, HuffPost, The Christian Century, and Sojourners. toon minder

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Read this for a church reading group and it was good for its purpose, but read solo I think it would probably be a bit light-weight. I do have one very real quarrel with it, and that is with the chapter on Healing, with its favorable discussion of Reiki as a healing touch – a practice that, in a church setting where there is an imbalance of power between clergy and members, can pose a danger of boundary violations, which is not recognized by this author.
 
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CurrerBell | 7 andere besprekingen | Feb 8, 2024 |
JC called it "Hallmark" Christianity; for the most part, I agree with that analysis. Some things she wrote seemed to resonate with me but too much seemed less profound than I had been led to believe.
 
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Elizabeth80 | 6 andere besprekingen | Aug 10, 2023 |
I have been reading spiritual literature as part of my morning routine. Freeing Jesus by Diana Butler Bass was an exploration of the various roles Jesus plays in the Bible and in our lives. Bass is a progressive theologian who uses her evangelical past to inform her current understandings of Jesus. The book was refreshing and joyful even as Bass grounds her ideas firmly in Scripture.
 
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witchyrichy | 6 andere besprekingen | May 16, 2023 |
The author puts the best face on Christianity by citing individuals who have embodied the best aspect's of Christ's teachings over the last two millenia. It's a rather selective history, although it still can't avoid mentioning a few folks who were burned at the stake for their beliefs. In the end, it's clear that Bass is a good person, but it's not clear exactly what the basis of her Christian faith is. She doesn't spell it out clearly. It would seem to consist in choosing the parts of the Bible she agrees with and ignoring the rest (such as its attitude toward women and homosexuals.) She seems optimistic that Christianity is evolving with a changing world. Perhaps she's in a better position to know than I am. I guess as long as people need something larger than themselves to believe in, they will be attracted by religion, no matter how flawed it is. All around the world, the best people take their religions and use them to help the disadvantaged, fight against hatred, and promote ecumenalism--but the worst folks continue to give all religion a bad name.

The audiobook narrator, while perfectly pleasant most of the time, drops into ridiculous accents when reading things written by non-Americans, making them sound sub-literate. This is idiotic. In the first place, these things weren't written in English to begin with. I'm sure their authors sounded perfectly competent in their native languages--why read them in English as if they are struggling to pronounce each word? Just idiotic. I have to repeat it again! Idiotic.
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