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books:

The Search to Belong
Joseph R. Myers

Zondervan, 2003

The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups

19 reviews
Joseph R. Myers

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2003

Small Groups Pastor's Perspective
This book has given meaning and a new understanding to what I experienced in my neighborhood as a child. On summer nights, people lounged the remainder of their day away on their front porches. Others who were taking a walk would stop and linger for conversation. Conversations tended to be light hearted, but sometimes burdens were shared. I loved my neighborhood because I belonged to it. ...

Edward Bellamy Writes Again

1 review
Joseph R. Myers

Northwest Pub, 1997

Actually a Very Good Book!
Joseph Myers has created a new version of "Looking Backward" written in the precise style and using the exact structure of Bellamy's "Looking Backward," but focused more on spiritual and moral possibilities, rather than political and economic possibilities. Any true fan of "Looking Backward" should first read Bellamy's 1897 sequel, "Equality," which continues the story where "Looking Backward" ...

Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect

10 reviews

Baker Books, 2007

Going Green in Ministry
You know a book is going to be good when you find yourself underlining stuff in the forward. After reading "Search to Belong" and "Organic Community," I think I would be willing to plop down money for just about anything that Joseph Myers writes. Like most of my favorite authors, he drives me crazy. I tried really hard to not like him. I wanted to brand him as anti-small groups. I tried to zoom ...

Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader (Blueroad Readers)
Freya Manfred, Robert Bly, ...

Blueroad Press, 2007

Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader is the first volume in a collected series of new writing and art from the road, featuring the works of nearly four dozen established and emerging writers, poets, and printmakers from North America. The stories, essays, and poems in Stardust and Fate tour some of many routes -- seen and otherwise -- running through people's lives, in real and imagined journeys, literal and figurative, past and present. ...