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Here is what Dr. Denison is reading from the most current to the oldest. Enjoy!
 Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
By Sara Miles
A self-proclaimed blue-state, secular-intellectual, lesbian, left-wing journalist with a strong skeptical streak, Miles was hardly a candidate for Christian conversion. Yet convert she did, wholeheartedly at age 46. For upon her first Communion (in an Episcopal church), everything changed (she still can't fully explain the feelings that arose during her first Communion). She realized that "what I'd been doing with my life all along was what I was meant to do: feed people" and started a food pantry in her gritty San Francisco neighborhood. The journey from skeptical secularist to devout Christian was long, complicated, and often convoluted (her parents were avid atheists), but the story she makes of it is engaging, funny, and highly entertaining, including many surprises as well as the occasional wrong turn. Incidentally, Miles comments, often with great insight, on the ugliness that many people associate with a particular brand of Christianity. Why would any thinking person become a Christian? is one of the questions she addresses, and her answer is also compelling reading. Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 320 pages, paperback from Ballatine Books.
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 Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
By Francis Chan
A follow up to the profound message of Crazy Love, Pastor Francis Chan offers a compelling invitation to understand, embrace, and follow the Holy Spirit's direction in our lives. In the name of the Father, the Son, and ... the Holy Spirit. We pray in the name of all three, but how often do we live with an awareness of only the first two? As Jesus ascended into heaven, He promised to send the Holy Spirit--the Helper--so that we could be true and living witnesses for Christ. Unfortunately, today's church has admired the gift but neglected to open it. Breakthrough author Francis Chan rips away paper and bows to get at the true source of the church's power--the Holy Spirit. Chan contends that we've ignored the Spirit for far too long, and we are reaping the disastrous results. Thorough scriptural support and compelling narrative form Chan's invitation to stop and remember the One we've forgotten, the Spirit of the living God. 208 pages, paperback from David C Cook.
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 A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman's Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide
By Mark D. Siljander
Former Congressman and Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, Mark Siljander takes you on an eye-opening journey of discovery into the world of Islam, Christianity and Politics. Of rural Michigan descent, Siljander, once elected to Congress, began to study Semitic languages and discovered that Christianity and Islam share many of the same core words: God and Allah are similar words in Aramaic for instance. And so began a critical re-examination of the teachings of the two faiths and just how similar they really are. No Christian or Muslim will be unaffected after reading this book. Siljander's paradigm-shifting discoveries could radically shift the contemporary religious landscape and help heal the rift between Islam and the West. 256 pages, hardcover from HarperOne.
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 Cultural Intelligence: Living and Working Globally
By David C Thomas, Kerr Inkson
As the world grows more connected every day, the need also grows for an updated edition of this classic guidebook to help navigate the ever-expanding cultural mazes of a truly globalized world. 264 pages, paperback from Berrett-Koehler.
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