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REVIEWS
The Bad
Christian’s Manifesto:
Reinventing God (and other modest
proposals)
Organic Mentoring:
A mentor’s guide to relationships with
next-generation women
Sue Edwards & Barbara Neumann, Kregel (2014)
Dave Tomlinson, Hodder &
Stoughton (2014)
WOW!
Written by the founder of Holy Joes, a
church in a Clapham pub for disaffected
churchgoers, this book will seem to some to
be deeply irreligious. It forces the reader to
put aside some of the accepted traditions,
thus making our faith more relevant to those
who find the thought of going to a church a
daunting prospect. This is achieved by using
the ordinary things of life to find a deeper
understanding of spirituality and sacraments.
The contents of the book may be summed up
by seeking to find the answer to Bonhoeffer’s
questioning of conventional ideas about
what Christianity really is, or who Christ
really is for us today. He addresses such basic
questions that at one time or another we all
(including the Archbishop of Canterbury)
ponder. Questions which cause us to have
doubts about our faith. Questions such as can
I still believe in God? What does God really
look like? Who does Jesus really care about?
A fabulous book well worth the reading
(especially the Easter sermon in the
Appendix), if you are prepared to be seriously
challenged!.
ALAN RASHLEIGH
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Organic Mentoring seeks to address the issue of outdated mentoring
models and offers a fresh, informed approach in woman to woman
mentoring. The title might suggest a natural process of two people
coming together in a mutually satisfying and transforming mentor/
mentee relationship. Is it just an ideal or even realistic to consider in
today’s Western society that older women naturally engage with or
relate to younger women? Postmodern women are more likely to seek
immediate advice or ‘wisdom’ from the internet or social networking
sites these days, rather than someone older who’s not on their
wavelength.
As I read further, it became clear that the authors have extensively
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