Sunday, March 08, 2009


Skye Jethani's new book, The Divine Commodity, is now out and about (in the States, at least). There's a not-very-long review in a post on the signs of life blog, written by the blog owner, David Swanson.

He makes the following comment at one point, and quotes from the book:

It is the description of an alternative to consumer Christianity that is most commendable. In a chapter about the tendency to place institutions before relationships Skye writes,

What may be needed is a fundamental rethinking of the church within the minds of the members, cultivating the imagination to conceive of the church as a relational community rather than an institutional organization. Beginning on the smallest end of the scale, this means relearning the lost art of friendship.


Swanson notes elsewhere:

The Divine Commodity
is organized into nine chapters, each which observe an aspect of consumerism that has infiltrated the church. Filled with stories, cultural artifacts, and Biblical reflection these observations are easily connected to the reader’s own context.

2 comments:

Lonnie said...

Shouldn't any book titled "The Divine Commodity" at least be available as a free download?

Mike Crowl said...

I don't think you're the first person to make this comment, Lonnie - including Jethani himself! Yup, it's a bit ironic all right.