Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Book Review: Blue Like Jazz
Summary: 4 Stars
I chose this book because I wanted to read what college students were reading. I wanted to get some insight into what they are thinking and how they look at things. I was not disappointed. Donald Miller is a new author to me and we are years apart in age, yet I could relate. Some of his thoughts were familiar because I have thought the same things. He has a wonderful sense of humor yet can go very deep in a flash. I have already started my second book by him. By the way, I am over 70.Book Review: The Journey
Summary: 5 Stars
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
This is how chutch life needs to be in order to be relevant now, not in the future.
Book Review: great fast read
Summary: 5 Stars
loved every moment of it. What a great story teller.
Reading this book was like watching his life happen.
recommended!
Book Review: --
Summary: 5 Stars
Subtitled "non-religious thoughts on Christian spirituality," this book consists of Miller's musings on Christian teachings and ideas. It is entertaining and even helpful in understanding how people approach the Christian faith and wrestle with its ideas. This book is being widely read on college campuses and so I would recommend that pastors, youth pastors, and college ministry leaders read it.
However, I hesitate recommending it to everyone and here is my concern: in a postmodern culture where Truth is rejected, absolute Truth is anathema, and only personal experience can be trusted, Miller's acceptance of "Christian spirituality" seems firmly grounded, not in Biblical teaching or orthodox theology, but in pragmatism, experience, and personally formulated logic. This only leads readers further away from developing a reasoned defense of the faith that is rooted in Biblical truth. Truth seems to be reduced to "what makes sense to me" and "what works for me," and this is not the Biblical standard for how to define or accept Truth.
Read this book because it will reveal how others wrestle with truth but don't read it as a tutorial on how you should wrestle with Truth.
Book Review: I Can't Wait For The Movie.
Summary: 5 Stars
Educational and entertaining. A fun trip tagging along with Donald Miller as he learns not to major on the minors. How he can know so much, and still believe in tithing, I don't understand, but "oh well." The chapter on "Confession" is well worth the purchase price. Read This Book!