{"id":260,"date":"2010-07-29T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/?p=260"},"modified":"2010-07-29T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T18:40:53","slug":"publisher%e2%80%99s-weekly-review-of-split-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Publisher\u0092s Weekly review of SPLIT TICKET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"snap_preview\">Very pleased to find a strong review in  Publisher\u0092s weekly for our new book, SPLIT TICKET, coming out next  month. Publisher\u0092s Weekly is one of the \u0096 if not the \u0096 most influential  trades in the publishing biz. So a positive nod from them can go a long  way.<\/p>\n<p>To see the review on the PW site itself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/reviews\/religion.html\">click on this link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To order SPLIT TICKET, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chalicepress.com\/Split-Ticket-P597C14.aspx\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Split Ticket: Independent Faith in a Time of Partisan Politics<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Edited by Amy Gopp, Christian Piatt, Brandon Gilvin, Chalice (Ingram, dist.), $16.99 paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8272-3474-1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At a time when partisan politics involves backbiting and cynicism,  here is a collection of essays about politics aimed at unity and hope.  In the spirit of a friendly roundtable, the essay writers, mostly 20-  and 30-something pastors, each discuss the importance of Christians\u0092  involvement in political activism. The writers represent areas from Los  Angeles to Bosnia and take up a variety of causes both systemic and  personal, including genocide and affordable housing. Their diversity  proves that Christians \u0093are not a monolith\u0094 and must wade through what  are characterized as competing truths in discerning whether to advocate.  Some urge Christians to fight the power of empire, citing the way Jesus  challenged the status quo to effect change. Others retreat from  activism, citing Jesus\u0092s pacifism. Yet the authors all agree that  Christians should work against injustice in some way and should employ  peaceful debate to work toward unity. Using their own tales of injustice  in a post-9\/11 world, they force Christians to wake up and take a  stand\u0096even if they themselves cannot agree on exactly what that should  be. (Aug.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very pleased to find a strong review in Publisher\u0092s weekly for our new book, SPLIT TICKET, coming out next month. Publisher\u0092s Weekly is one of the \u0096 if not the \u0096 most influential trades in the publishing biz. So a positive nod from them can go a long way. To see the review on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,42,11,19,13,34,28,29,10,27,32,37,1,43,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}