The reviews of Grace at the Garbage Dump are coming quickly now. There’s a new one in Pastoral Staff, the newspaper of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts: Jesse tells his story beautifully in Grace. As he used his ingenuity with the schoolchildren, he used it as well to learn Xhosa, to reach out to women dying of […]
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There’s a new review of my book Grace at the Garbage Dump from Episcopal Digital Network. You can read the whole thing, or read the extracts here: The struggles [Zink] has as he lives and learns and serves in a situation of desperate poverty and horrible disease make Grace at the Garbage Dump a highly valuable
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Episcopal Cafe’s Daily Episcopalian has an extract of my new book, Grace at the Garbage Dump. The word mission is more and more a part of conversations about the future of the Episcopal Church. As I’ve watched the conversation unfold, I think back to my weeks driving Pakama to her never-ending string of appointments. Mission begins
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My old friends at KNOM in Nome, Alaska wanted to hear all about my new book, Grace at the Garbage Dump. So I told them all about it. An interview we did recently is now posted online. You can listen to it at this link. It’s about 7:30 long. Don’t have your copy yet? All
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Last Thursday, the shantytown community in South Africa in which I used to work—the place I wrote a book about—was demolished. You can read an account from one of my successors, Karen. There are many factors at work here, many complicated, and I’m still trying to untangle all of them. For now, though, consider this
Pastor Julia at RevGalBlogPals has a new review of my book Grace at the Garbage Dump: I highly recommend Grace at the Garbage Dump for your personal reading, if not for your church book club or any Christian education class from high school and up. In particular, if you are in a denomination that talks about the conservatism
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Here is a story that should come as no surprise to anyone: The Anglican Communion faces a shortage of qualified communicators, according to an international Working Group on communications. The group—consisting of communications professionals from five continents—concluded that the Communion life was at risk of being detrimentally affected by some Provinces’ inability to source and
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My interview on WHMP yesterday is now a podcast. The link is here. The interview starts at about 18:00 and ends about 15 minutes later. They call it “moving, funny, and edifying.” I have my doubts but listen and see what you think. One of my answers surprised me. It was the one on the
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…when you have a book signing and it’s standing room only? That’s what Stephen Register and I had today at the Student Book Supply at Yale Divinity School. Each of us read from our books—his is Meantime: The Aesthetics of Soldiering, mine is Grace at the Garbage Dump: Making Sense of Mission in the Twenty-First Century—and
I’ll be reading from and signing copies of my new book, Grace at the Garbage Dump, at the Yale Divinity School bookstore on Tuesday, April 17, at 12:30pm. What makes this a particularly special event is that it is a joint event with my friend and fellow author, Stephen Register. Stephen’s new book is Meantime: The Aesthetics
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