Category Archives: Books

My Sisters the Saints (6) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 13, 2013 by John Armstrong

Colleen Carroll Campbell’s journey to femininity did not lead her to embrace a kind of Catholic “fundamentalism” with regard to the social, professional and economic gains that she had previously experienced because of feminism. John and Carroll Campbell clearly share … Continue reading →

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My Sisters the Saints (5) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 12, 2013 by John Armstrong

As Colleen Carroll Campbell tried to settle into her new work at the White House she found that she had never been so profoundly challenged in her work but so deeply dissatisfied with her life in general. She writes: I … Continue reading →

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My Sisters the Saints (4) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 11, 2013 by John Armstrong

In the spring of 2001, five years after Colleen Carroll Campbell had moved from Memphis to St. Louis to write for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, she fell in love with John Campbell, a young physician in training who would … Continue reading →

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My Sisters the Saints (3) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 10, 2013 by John Armstrong

As Colleen Carroll Campbell’s spiritual memoir, My Sisters the Saints, evolves we begin to understand how her relationship with men was being changed profoundly. These changes clearly grew out of the spiritual formation that was now powerfully shaping her life … Continue reading →

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My Sisters the Saints (2) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 9, 2013 by John Armstrong

Colleen Carroll Campbell’s new spiritual memoir informs the reader, very early in the book, of how her reading St. Teresa’s biography brought deep change. She understood anew why her parents read the lives of the saints as she found in … Continue reading →

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Why Politics Matters and How We Got the Wrong End of the Stick (4)

Posted on February 7, 2013 by John Armstrong

Readers of James Davison Hunter’s magnificent critique of how Christians have sought to transform culture in America will know that he critiques Stanley Hauerwas and Jim Wallis unfavorably, just as he does conservative icons Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus. … Continue reading →

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Why Politics Matters and How We Got the Wrong End of the Stick (3)

Posted on February 6, 2013 by John Armstrong

The liberal church’s response, against the backdrop of the social presumptions that I discussed in yesterday’s blog, has very often been a weak-kneed call for “peace with justice.” Hauerwas and Willimon (photo at left) put it this way: “Most of … Continue reading →

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The Social Media: What Changed and How?

Posted on November 9, 2012 by John Armstrong

Over the last decade the emerging social media–most of which did not even exist before the year 2000–abruptly altered our use of the Internet, itself a medium of only a little more than a decade-plus. Interactive platforms, called 2.0 web … Continue reading →

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My Journey (5): Growing Up as a Christian Pilgrim

Posted on September 11, 2012 by John Armstrong

On my seventh birthday, March 1, 1956, my mom and dad gave me my first Bible, at least one that was really and truly my own. (I’m sure I must have had previous Bibles but none were kept as mine!) … Continue reading →

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The Best User-friendly Theology Book in Years

Posted on August 24, 2012 by John Armstrong

The host pastor for our Chicago ACT 3 Cohort is Rev. Dr. George Byron Koch, pastor of Resurrection Anglican Church in West Chicago. George and I have begun to share this missional-ecumenical journey very deeply. George is the author of … Continue reading →

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