Things change. Things never stay the same. That’s the one thing that you can count on. It’s the one thing that stays the same. Make sense?
I got a call from my book publisher recently, “Josh, after talking with the marketing team and evaluating the book market . . . “
Of course I’m thinking, “They’re about [...]
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Endorsements for THE FEAST: HOW TO SERVE JESUS IN A HUNGRY WORLD (Leafwood Publishers, 2009)
Josh Graves knows that the soul’s hunger is not satisfied by right beliefs alone. People crave spirituality – and not just a wishy-washy, airy-fairy, this-and-that spirituality either. They want a robust, lifelong, dynamic, profound, and deep-rooted (or radical) spirituality that is [...]
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Here’s a brief introduction for my book, The Feast, coming out September 1, 2009 from Leafwood Publishers.
In 1871, the city of Chicago suffered a devastating fire. By the end of the destruction, almost two-thirds of the city proper had been destroyed. Likely a case of an urban myth run wild, early reports pointed to a [...]
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While I’m working on new projects related to my first book (Jesus Feast), I’ve updated the look of the blog (now going by the same name as the book). The look will likely change again this summer as we get the final image/look set for the book. The final edits (syntax, comma splices, vocab, etc.) [...]
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Here’s another snippet from Jesus Feast. I’ve had excellent editorial help from Leonard Allen, Greg Taylor along with Josh Ross, Sara Barton and Kara Graves (oh yeah . . . and the religion classes I’ve taught at Rochester College along with a spiritual formation class I taught last year at Rochester Church). After the book [...]
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In September 2007, I was on a small plane flying from Abilene to Dallas, Texas. I had just finished teaching a class on the relationship of film and spirituality in postmodern cultures at Abilene Christian University. As we were making our way to Dallas, I started to get an idea. So, I did what I [...]
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