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Weekly essays, book reviews, film reviews, and poetry reviews on Christ & culture by Daniel B. Clendenin. JourneyWithJesus.net serves the global church through scholarship, teaching in third-world seminaries, consulting, and the promotion of Christian philanthropy. This weekly webzine is published every week free of charge to all readers. Our mission vision is characterized by six values--biblical fidelity, cultural relevance, critical inquiry, pastoral sensitivity, global awareness, and ecu ...
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Rising* for Sunday, 17 April 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Harlem Shuffle* by Colson Whitehead (2021); film review by Brad Keister: *Citizen Hearst* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet X)* by John Donne.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Cruciform* for Sunday, 10 April 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir* by Sherry Turkle (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Mayor Pete* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Crucifixion* by Anna Akhmatova.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Beauty and Breaking* for Sunday, 3 April 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Why I Would Have Killed Jesus and You Might Have Too* by David Nelson (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous* (2021); poem selected by Debie Thomas: *Comfort Animal* by Joy L…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Love and Lostness* for Sunday, 27 March 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear* by Kate Bowler (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Jimmy Carter* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *The Prodigal's Mother Talks to God* by Allis…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *What Are You Asking?* for Sunday, 20 March 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past* by David Reich (2018); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Walk Together Children: The 150th Anniversary of the Fisk Jubilee Singe…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *I Have Longed* for Sunday, 13 March 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years In Eight Chapters* by Andrew H. Knoll (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Fruits of Labor* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Prayer for Overcoming Indifference*…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *In the Barren Places* for Sunday, 6 March 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story* by Dimitra Papagianni and Michael Morse (2013); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute* (2021); poem selected b…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Down from the Mountain* for Sunday, 27 February 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age* by Annalee Newitz (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Count Me In* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *The Valley of Vision* by Arthur Bennett…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *The Work of Forgiveness* for Sunday, 20 February 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art* by Rebecca Wragg Sykes (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Hail! Hail! Rock-n-Roll* (1987); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *The Remnant of the Fury Wi…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Leveled* for Sunday, 13 February 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope* by Valerie Gilpeer and Emily Grodin (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Chuck Berry* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *A Child's Thought of…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *I Saw the Lord* for Sunday, 6 February 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times* by Katherine May (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Lives Well Lived* (2018); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Touched by an Angel* by Maya Angelou…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *The Greatest of These* for Sunday,30 January 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story* by Julie Rodgers (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Henry VIII's Reformation* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Love (III)* by George Herbert.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Today* for Sunday, 23 January 2022; book review by Brad Keister: *Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages* by Dan Jones (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Brave Blue World* (2019); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Epiphany* by Reginald Heber.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Many Gifts, One Spirit* for Sunday, 16 January 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Wild Woman: A Footnote, The Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint* by Amy Frykholm (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Pope Francis* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Because We Hunkered Dow…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *One of Us* for Sunday, 9 January 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Undocumented Americans* by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Curd Nerds* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Epiphany* by Walter Brueggemann.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Michael Fitzpatrick: *With All Wisdom* for Sunday, 2 January 2022; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars* by Jo Marchant (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Kiss the Ground* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *A New Year's Poem* by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Michael Fitzpatrick: *Treasures in her Heart* for Sunday, 26 December 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir* by Sara Seager (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Pray Away* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *The Truce of Christmas* by GK Chesterton.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *At the Threshold* for Sunday, 19 December 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Art and Faith: A Theology of Making* by Makoto Fujimura (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Gabriel's Annunciation* by Ja…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Rejoice Always?* for Sunday, 12 December 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *whereabouts: A Novel* by Jhumpa Lahiri (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *MLK/FBI* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *On the Mystery of the Incarnation* by Denise Levertov.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *A Voice Crying* for Sunday, 5 December 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Notes on Grief* by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Hale County This Morning, This Evening* (2018); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Advent Credo* by Allan Boesak.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Ron Hansen: *Preparing for the Son of Man* for Sunday, 28 November 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century* by John Loughery and Blythe Randolph (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Fantastic Fungi* (2019); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *ADVENT (On…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *What is Truth?* for Sunday, 21 November 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World* by Vivek H. Murthy (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)* (2021);…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Pouring Out My Soul* for Sunday, 14 November 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity* by Amy Webb (2019); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Zappa* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *The Habit of Perfection*…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *What Are We Building?* for Sunday, 7 November 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir* by Natasha Trethewey (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *The Donut King* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Dreams and Nightmares* by Walter Brueggemann.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Walk in Love* for Sunday, 31 October 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy* by Cathy O'Neil (2016); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story* (2020); poem selected b…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Happily Ever After* for Sunday, 24 October 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World* by David Epstein (2019); film review by Dan Clendenin: *What Really Matters at the End of Life* (2015); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *God's Grief* by …
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *The Unknowable* for Sunday, 17 October 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Celebrant's Flame: Daniel Berrigan in Memory and Reflection* by Bill Wylie-Kellermann (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Seeking Shelter: A Story of Place, Faith, and Resistance* (2017); poem selected by Dan …
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *What Must I Do?* for Sunday, 10 October 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear* by Lynn Casteel Harper (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *What Makes a Good Life?* (2015); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *The Peace Prayer…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *What Are We?* for Sunday, 3 October 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family* by Robert Kolker (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Coded Bias* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *The Peace of Wild Things* by Wendell Berry.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Hosts, Not Bouncers* for Sunday, 26 September 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America* by Richard Rothstein (2017); film review by Dan Clendenin: *The Minimalists: Less is Now* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clende…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Who is the Greatest?* for Sunday, 19 September 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Gospel of "It's a Wonderful Life"* by James Dillon (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *It's a Wondeful Life* (1946); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *I think of those who were truly great* by Steph…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *The Questions that Matter* for Sunday, 12 September 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World* by Simon Winchester (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Saving Notre Dame* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Today* by Mary Olive…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *He sighed* for Sunday, 5 September 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life* by William Finnegan (2015); film review by Dan Clendenin: *The Women in the Sand* (2017); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Called to Say Yes* by Edwina Gateley.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *True Religion* for Sunday, 29 August 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Jack: A Novel* by Marilynne Robinson (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Human Nature* (2019); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Questionnaire* by Wendell Berry.By Dan Clendenin
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Michael Fitzpatrick: *Sun and Shield* for Sunday, 22 August 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *A Perspective on Memory: An Artist with Alzheimer's* by Donald Nichols (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Flannery* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Abide With Me* by Henry F. Lyte.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Unless You Eat* for Sunday, 15 August 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, From Stardust To Living Planet* by Robert M. Hazen (2012); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Nomadland* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Address to the Lord (1…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Bread to Carry* for Sunday, 8 August 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *A Children's Bible: A Novel* by Lydia Millet (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Crusing the Cut* (2019--); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Submission* by William Cowper.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Deep Hungers* for Sunday, 1 August 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Ghosts of Gold Mountain; The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad* by Gordon H. Chang (2019); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Song Exploder* (2020); poem selected by Debie Thomas: *Meditat…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *The Miracle of Gathering* for Sunday, 25 July 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Trust: America's Best Chance* by Pete Buttigieg (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Cuba and the Cameraman* (2017); poem selected by Debie Thomas: *Perhaps the World Ends Here* by Joy Harjo.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *The Gift of Rest* for Sunday, 18 July 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *War: How Conflict Shaped Us* by Margaret MacMillan (2019); film review by Dan Clendenin: *The Dig* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Sabbath* by Wendell Berry.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Greatly Perplexed* for Sunday, 11 July 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith* by Timothy Egan (2019); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Taylor Swift: Miss Americana* (2020); poem selected by Debie Thomas: *I think of thos…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Hometown Prophets* for Sunday, 4 July 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness* by Anne Harrington (2019); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States* (2015); poem selected by…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Not Dead But Sleeping* for Sunday, 27 June 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life* by Louise Aronson (2019); film review by Dan Clendenin: *The Life Ahead* (2021); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Touched by an Angel*…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Don't You Care?* for Sunday, 20 June 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *No Filter; The Inside Story of Instagram* by Sarah Frier (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Dick Johnson is Dead* (2020); poem selected by Debie Thomas: *Maybe* by Mary Oliver.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *The Sleeping Gardener* for Sunday, 13 June 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Cockroach* by Ian McEwan (2019); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Five Films on the Tulsa Race Massacre* (2021); poem selected by Debie Thomas: *From a Country Overlooked* by Tom Hennen.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Michael Fitzpatrick: *What Cannot Be Seen* for Sunday, 6 June 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Machines Like Me: A Novel* by Ian McEwan (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *The Last Dance* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *What I Have Learned So Far* by Mary Oliver.…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Michael Fitzpatrick: *Ascribe to the Lord* for Sunday, 30 May 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: ** by (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Becoming* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *The Gifts of the Three* by anonymous.By Dan Clendenin
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *When You Send Forth Your Spirit* for Sunday, 23 May 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race* by Walter Isaacson (2021); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Billie* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *O Comfort…
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *A Lover's Prayer* for Sunday, 16 May 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Me* by Elton John (2019); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Bending the Arc* (2017); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *The Journey Prayer* by St. Brendan the Voyager.By Dan Clendenin
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Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings. Essay by Debie Thomas: *It's All About Love* for Sunday, 9 May 2021; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Uncanny Valley: A Memoir* by Anna Wiener (2020); film review by Dan Clendenin: *My Octopus Teacher* (2020); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Love (III)* by George Herbert.…
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