Reviews/Press
Press:
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Reviews and interviews for Connecting Like Jesus:
Review from Christian Retailing, June 2010:
While the 21st century offers many ways to communicate—smartphones, Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, Instant Messaging—paradoxically, these technologies can leave people feeling alienated and disconnected.
In Connecting Like Jesus: Practices for Healing, Preaching, and Teaching, sociologist and preacher Campolo and communications expert Darling have combined forces to bridge the gap of interpersonal distance. Their goal: to help people “relate to others in ways that deeply satisfy the deepest needs of our souls.” Divided into three parts—Connecting Like Jesus, Practices of Soul Healing and Practices for Teaching and Healing—the book focuses on important themes, including self-awareness, overcoming fear and redeeming conflict.
Connecting Like Jesus is an essential resource for churches and religious organizations. Yet it has broad appeal and will aid students, seminarians, counselors, church leaders and lay people. In sum, it will intrigue any reader interested in how the Holy Spirit can break down walls between people.
—C. Brian Smith
For Interviews with Mary and Tony, please click here: Read the Spirit.
Review from Spirituality and Practice.
Endorsements for Connecting Like Jesus:
“Tony Campolo is among our most able communicators today, and Mary Darling is known for her exceptional skill in soul care. Together they have crafted a book that can help us all be with each other in radically loving ways.” —Richard J. Foster, author. Celebration of Discipline and Streams of Living Water
“Darling and Campolo have crafted a book that is good for the soul, and will help reproduce a new generation of preachers and prophets.” —Shane Claiborne, author, activist, and recovering sinner, www.thesimpleway.org
“This book contains some wonderful tools you can’t afford to miss. Not only will it strengthen you as a communicator, but it will empower you to love people more deeply.”—Margaret Feinberg (www.margaretfeinberg.com), author: Scouting the Divine and The Sacred Echo
“Tony Campolo …opens to the reader a treasure house of wisdom for communicating the gospel, and Mary Darling demonstrates a profound instinct on how to care for other souls…. A gem for anyone who wants to serve God more powerfully....”—Dr. Robert H. Schuller, Founding Pastor and Preacher, Crystal Cathedral and The Hour of Power
“A practical and inspiring treasure of skills and wisdom … for anyone who desires to communicate more faithfully and effectively in a media-rich, spiritually impoverished world.”─Quentin J. Schultze, Professor of Communication, Calvin College; author: An Essential Guide to Public Speaking Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue
“In this passionate and delightfully practical book, Campolo and Darling… guide us toward ways of … preaching, teaching and connecting with others that grow out of the ministry of Jesus and the gospel… Refreshing and eminently useful.” —Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Review from Christian Retailing, June 2010:
While the 21st century offers many ways to communicate—smartphones, Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, Instant Messaging—paradoxically, these technologies can leave people feeling alienated and disconnected.
In Connecting Like Jesus: Practices for Healing, Preaching, and Teaching, sociologist and preacher Campolo and communications expert Darling have combined forces to bridge the gap of interpersonal distance. Their goal: to help people “relate to others in ways that deeply satisfy the deepest needs of our souls.” Divided into three parts—Connecting Like Jesus, Practices of Soul Healing and Practices for Teaching and Healing—the book focuses on important themes, including self-awareness, overcoming fear and redeeming conflict.
Connecting Like Jesus is an essential resource for churches and religious organizations. Yet it has broad appeal and will aid students, seminarians, counselors, church leaders and lay people. In sum, it will intrigue any reader interested in how the Holy Spirit can break down walls between people.
—C. Brian Smith
For Interviews with Mary and Tony, please click here: Read the Spirit.
Review from Spirituality and Practice.
Endorsements for Connecting Like Jesus:
“Tony Campolo is among our most able communicators today, and Mary Darling is known for her exceptional skill in soul care. Together they have crafted a book that can help us all be with each other in radically loving ways.” —Richard J. Foster, author. Celebration of Discipline and Streams of Living Water
“Darling and Campolo have crafted a book that is good for the soul, and will help reproduce a new generation of preachers and prophets.” —Shane Claiborne, author, activist, and recovering sinner, www.thesimpleway.org
“This book contains some wonderful tools you can’t afford to miss. Not only will it strengthen you as a communicator, but it will empower you to love people more deeply.”—Margaret Feinberg (www.margaretfeinberg.com), author: Scouting the Divine and The Sacred Echo
“Tony Campolo …opens to the reader a treasure house of wisdom for communicating the gospel, and Mary Darling demonstrates a profound instinct on how to care for other souls…. A gem for anyone who wants to serve God more powerfully....”—Dr. Robert H. Schuller, Founding Pastor and Preacher, Crystal Cathedral and The Hour of Power
“A practical and inspiring treasure of skills and wisdom … for anyone who desires to communicate more faithfully and effectively in a media-rich, spiritually impoverished world.”─Quentin J. Schultze, Professor of Communication, Calvin College; author: An Essential Guide to Public Speaking Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue
“In this passionate and delightfully practical book, Campolo and Darling… guide us toward ways of … preaching, teaching and connecting with others that grow out of the ministry of Jesus and the gospel… Refreshing and eminently useful.” —Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
