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I have two favorite religious books for 2008.\u00a0 <\/span>The first one is Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of this World for
\nCrucifixion and Empire<\/a><\/i> by Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a great book for those of us who are looking for
\nsome serious theological reflection on the rightful place of Jesus, the cross, salvation
\nand kingdom of God in this world.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker are scholars of the first rate. \u00a0It is not an
\n“easy read” but the long needed correction to current\u00a0blithely\u00a0accepted atonement theology\u00a0<\/span>is worth it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The second is Sea Is So Wide and
\nMy Boat Is So Small, The: Charting a Course for the Next Generation<\/a><\/span><\/i>, by Marian Wright
\nEdelman.\u00a0 <\/span>While not as theological
\nas Brock and Parker’s book, Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund,
\nwakes the reader up with a stirring call to do right by our children and thereby do
\nright by God.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Taken together, these two books by three powerful women remind us that
\nJesus came to redeem us spiritually and physically right here on earth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>This Christmas let’s remember Mary
\n‘ song from Luke: “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my
\nsavior…God has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the
\nlowly; God has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty….”\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Brock, Parker, and Edelman
\nare bringing Mary’s message to us again in 2008 with these great books.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What other suggestions do Progressive Revival readers have?\u00a0 <\/span>Please add them below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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